Vintage Persian Gabbeh Rug 4'1'' x 6'2''

This nomadic all wool scatter shows a chessboard design of squares with a central cruciform array.Panels at each field end with four complete flowers each. Red, light blue, yellow, n...

This SW Persian Qashghai tribal scatter shows an abrashed crimson open field centred by a pole medallion of three stepped near black diamonds, edged and joined by simple ecru rosette...

Gabbeh or gabba carpets are a traditional variety of Persian carpet. Gabbeh is known as gava in Kurdish and Luri and is also called khersak in Bakhtiari, literally meaning a "bear's...

Gabbeh or gabba carpets are a traditional variety of Persian carpet. Gabbeh is known as gava in Kurdish and Luri and is also called khersak in Bakhtiari, literally meaning a "bear's ...

Gabbeh or gabba carpets are a traditional variety of Persian carpet. Gabbeh is known as gava in Kurdish and Luri and is also called khersak in Bakhtiari, literally meaning a "bear's ...

Vintage Persian Gabbeh   

Vintage Persian Malayer rug 4'1 x 6'1. A hand knotted Malayer rug, the field is field is full of delightful botehs on a soft gray ground with hints of taupe and cinnamon. The rug is ...

Vintage Senneh Persian rug 3'8 X 4'1". Kurdistan come antique rugs that attain nearly miraculous fineness and suppleness. And they are rugs, almost...

A shaggy hand-knotted Persian Gabbeh rug with camel and beige chevron like patterning.

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 rug from the mid-20th century.

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