First Quarter 20th Century Varamin Runner

This moderately woven NW Persian village piece shows a traditional madder red field, but with an uncommon centralized pattern of a variety of small smooth and larger torn leaves, oft...

This incredibly robust Kurdish scatter show a near black navy field with a version of the traditional Harshang design, around a central ragged and layered palmettes, and with stepped...

This robustly, well woven Kurdish city runner shows a traditional allover Herati design covering the abrashed light blue field. It is balanced laterally, a sign of supervised worksho...

The red field hosts 11 hook-fringed hexagons accented in ecru, light blue, medium blue, orange and red, on an abrashed rich red ground. Small rosettes swarm in the defined reserves o...

The abrashed brown to beige field is plain except for a thin, dark brown outline diamond lattice. The pale straw border shows a "bug" chain in red, green and rose, with oblique strip...

The ecru field shows an allover infinitary pattern of ragged oblique palmettes forming a lattice and reinforced with upright similar palmettes and copious floret sprays. Straw border...

An early 20th century Persian Varamin Kilim runner with all-over multicolored geometric floral pattern surrounded by multiple complementary borders.

An unusual early 20th century Persian Veramin Kilim runner with an intricately woven multiple-colored almost geometric in form tree-of-life pattern on an indigo background. The borde...

A beautiful 20th century Persian Azari runner with seven large medallions with stylized flowers and leaves woven in crimson, pink, white, brown, and pale green, all against an Abrash...

A bold 20th century Persian Yalameh runner with eight multicolored diamond-shaped medallions amidst a beautiful crimson field of flowers and surrounded by border with a stylized mult...

An early 20th century Northwest Persian Varamin Runner Measures: 2'8'' x 10'5'' Highly decorative runner Persian Varamin. Varamin carpets and rugs or Veramin carpets and rugs...

Heriz Carpet, 2nd Quarter 20th Century Heriz rugs and carpets were woven in Northwest Persia starting in the Mid-19th century in response to a great increase in demand for rugs internationally. Prior to that, there were no rugs woven (in Persia) for export that exhibited this stylized drawing of plant and flower forms. The lower knot density and thicker pile became the standard for these rugs, which lent to a less formal aesthetic that remains popular to this day. The use of natural dyes in the Heriz workshops prevailed well into the 20th century, setting them apart from city workshops, which began to embrace synthetic dyes as early as the turn of the century. What was once one of the least...