Vintage Gabbeh Rug

Vintage Gabbeh Rug 2'4'' x 2'10''. Three small architectural niches along the top of the aubergine field are set directly above a step-shouldered pa...

Vintage Gabbeh rug 2'10'' x 3'6''.

Vintage Gabbeh Rug 4' x 5'8''. This SW Persian tribal scatter features an abrashed straw ground with a rainfall of tiny brown dots. dender toward one end and becoming sparser toward ...

Vintage Gabbeh rug. Measures: 2.8'' x 4.2''.

Vintage Gabbeh rug measures 3'5'' x 5'.

Vintage Gabbeh Wool on wool 4' x 6'8''. The striking green abrashed, borderless ground show a few randomly set geometric animal, but the real design act...

A beautiful vintage Gabbeh rug, handwoven by the nomadic Qashqai tribe circa 1960 with a stylised tree of life design on a black and white (commonly...

A whimsical vintage Persian Gabbeh rug with an abrash natural brown and cream background with several indigo, green, and cream diamond medallions, and four women in each corner, and ...

A remarkable late 20th century Persian Gabbeh rug with a wonderful abrash crimson field woven with a small goat in the center, and a small human figure in each corner, and surrounded...

A vintage Persian Gabbeh modernist carpet from the mid-20th century. A vintage Persian Gabbeh rug. The khaki field of this small square tribal scatter is closely covered by a nested ...

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

A vintage Persian Gabbeh rug woven by the nomadic Qashqai tribe. This is definitely a conversational piece and one created for an artsy individual that can enjoy the quirkiness of vintage tribal rugs. Aside from the offset medallion and highly striated field ranging from brick to crimson red, the text reading "year 2536 (intended, most likely, for the year the rug was made)" is peculiar regardless if its source is from the Persian calendar (current year: 1397) or the Gregorian calendar (current year: 2018). Was the weaver an innumerate individual that lacked basic education and just slapped on some nonsensical numbers of a futuristic date onto the rug? Or, was this an extremely intelligent individual that possessed a skill that very few have? The ability to convert the old imperial Persian (Achaemenid) calendar created in 559 BC under Cyrus the Great...