Vintage Persian Gabbeh Rug 3'8'' x 5'4''

Vintage Persian Qashqai Rug 2'8'' x 5'4''. The best SW Persian, Fars Province nomadic rugs, mostly in scatter formats. Geometric Gabbehs, l...

Vintage Persian Kilim Rug 5'4'' x 7'8''. No borders restrict the pattern of large stepped and nested diamonds in navy, tangerine, rust-red and green. No ecru or ivory anywhere. Wide...

Vintage Persian Sumak Rug 3'8'' x 6'5''. A technique rather than a specific type, in which warps are wrapped by colored wefts to create a pattern. Caucasian, Turkish, Persian and oth...

Vintage Persian Tabriz Rug 3'8'' x 5'6''. The enormous output of carpets and scatters in virtually every style: medallion, centralized, directional or allover, trein a variety of den...

A beautiful bold vintage Persian Gabbeh rug with a n abrash crimson field with several indigo and white goats, and surrounded by a repeated crimson, white, green, and indigo square p...

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...

A vintage Persian Gabbeh carpet from the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a lion.