Zabihi Collection Breathtaking Emerald Green Oversize Persian Antique Heriz Rug

An early 20th century Persian Heriz room size colorful rug. Measures: 7'4'' x 10'6''.

Room size Persian Heriz rug. Orangy-rust field, charcoal and blue abrashed medallion with a camel border. Traditional Medallion design. Measures: 8'11'' x 12'10'' Heriz carpet...

An early 20th-century Persian Heriz room size rug Measures: 7'8'' x 11'2''.

An early 20th-century Persian Heriz small rug. Measures: 2'10'' x 4'1''.

An absolutely phenomenal Persian antique Tabriz rug from the 3rd quater of the 19th century. One medallion located in the middle of the piece with two medallions woven halfway on sub...

1920s Persian Heriz accent rug in warm colors Measures: 4'5'' x 6'2''

Breathtaking Geometric Antique Persian Heriz Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: Persian Rug, Circa date: 1920

Rare Antique Manchester Kashan rug Persian Fine Kork Wool 4'3" x 6'9" 130cm x 206cm Circa 1880 "This is a one of a kind pre 1900's Manc...

This antique 13x23 Persian rug is an exceptionally rare palace-sized carpet of Heriz provenance—hand-knotted in wool circa 1900-1910. On the Design: Connoisseurs will note Heri...

Beautiful Red Oversized Antique Persian Heriz Serapi Rug, Country Of Origin: Persia, Circa Date: 1880

Nice European rug with a Heriz design and orange field, purple, pink, green and yellow, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

This carpet was woven in Northwest Persia (Iran) in an area located some 40 to 50 miles due east of the city of Tabriz – the provincial capital of Persian Azerbaijan and one-time capital of Imperial Persia prior to the fifteenth century. This province is bounded on the north by the Russian Caucasus, on the east by the Caspian Sea, and on the west by Turkey. The principal weaving towns of the area were, and are Karadja, Heriz, Sarab, Ahar, Bakshaish, Gorevan, and Mehrevan. As you may know, most rectilinear designed rugs are products of the tribes and villages; so it was not often that carpet (room) sizes were produced with designs in the geometric, or highly stylized, format. In about the middle of the nineteenth century, a revitalization of the rug-making art form began to take place after nearly two centuries of neglect due to destructive external forces which placed Persia in a survival mode for most of that period. It is said that the arts do not flourish when there is chaos and confusion, which depresses the all-important patronage necessary for artistic growth and development, so, in great measure, the rug weaving art returned to its roots in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries – a product of the tribes and villages, with the high art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries all but dead. The nineteenth-century revival was stimulated by English and European trading companies acting in concert with the energetic merchants of Tabriz. It is accepted by most of us that the emergence of large-sized carpets with designs in the rectilinear was a result of the revival in Tabriz where designs in the very elaborate curvilinear form were provided to the surrounding country weavers to produce carpet sizes in these designs but within the framework of the country weaver’s capability to execute these designs. Thus emerged an interpretation with great character and pleasing simplicity. Agriculturally, the area is not particularly important, but the prosperous carpet weaving industry brought considerable relative wealth to some of the towns like Heriz. It was this area that produced remarkably tough carpets exhibiting that aforementioned character of design, The skill of the weavers was such that they were known to merely pin a piece of cloth on a wall or loom support – on which had been crudely drawn design elements – from which they could weave any sized carpet. A really astonishing feat of intuitive and instinctive planning. They truly represent that desired individuality in design but always within the framework of broad design formats peculiar to the region. Noted authority Arthur Urbane Dilley, in 1931, wrote the following describing the beauty of the Heriz district carpets: “Heriz rugs have supplied to a small group of discerning buyers, adaptable color harmonies of great beauty. Fine variegated color is to the older Heriz...