Vintage Kelderdasht Rug

A wonderful vintage Turkish Tulu rug woven with shaggy Angora wool with a tribal pattern containing several crimson and indigo arched stripes, and stylized green and red flowers.

A vintage Persian Bakhtiari rug with a patchwork pattern depicting various trees, trees-of-life, and flowers, surrounded by a wide large-scale floral and vine pattern flanked by a pa...

A beautiful vintage Shiraz rug with three diamond-form medallions against a field of stylized flowers and surrounded by a geometric stylized floral ...

A vintage Persian Ardabil rug with a tribal pattern woven with stylized flower and birds woven in crimson, teal, and yellow against a white backgro...

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...

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 ...

Beautiful late 20th century rug with a tribal design, pink field color, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.  

61085 Vintage Turkoman rug, 05'00 x 06'01. Cleverly composed with saturated colors, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkoman rug beautifully embodi...

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

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

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...