Vintage Afshar Hand Woven Animal Figure Rug 6'8 X 9'6

Vintage Persian Afshar rug carpet, circa 1940, 5'7 x 9'9. The antique tribal rugs of the Afshar tribe are woven primarily in southwest Persia and come in a bewildering variety of designs, some indigenous, some adapted from other tribes or urban sources. Normally they are in scatter sizes, 3-4 feet by 5-7 feet, with a few room size carpets. Afshar rugs may be symmetrically or asymmetrically knotted, on cotton or wool foundations. Similarly, the attractive color schemes range from light to dark, ivory to navy. The informal, but charming, patterns may be medallions, arabesques, allover textile designs or abstract geometric motives. A few Afshars are located in Azerbaijan province, northwest Persia. The Afshars originated in Central Asia and came to Persia in the 18th century with the conqueror Nader...

Antique Tabriz rug carpet, circa 1880. Among the most classical of the revival period Tabriz carpet designs is that of the garden design pattern. This divides the field into small pa...

Vintage NW Persian Animal Design Runner Rug 3'4 X 8'5. A wonderful NW Persian runner with a wide variety of colors and designs including animal figur...

Antique Lightly Distressed Persian Afshar Area Rug 4'7 X 5'1. Lightly distressed adding to the beauty and interest of this Afshar rug. Afshar carpets come from northeastern Iran. The...

An incredible vintage late 20th-century Afshar rug with a pattern with alternating trees-of-life, deer, and stylized floral patterns all woven in cut pile s...

Vintage Bakhtiari rug 4'8'' x 6'8''. This a classic, cotton foundation, Chahar Mahal/"Bakhtiari" scatter with an allover large one-way scale patt...

Vintage Persian Afshar Rug. Afshar rugs are tribal designs and come from the Afshar tribe based mainly in the Azerbaijan region of Persia. They are normally in the smaller size 3-4 f...

A vintage Persian Afshar rug from the mid-20th century.