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Ahar Handmade Persian Rugs
Ahar is a small village in north-western Iran, in the region near Tabriz and Gharabagh.
Ahar rugs are mainly smaller pieces and runners.
The colors used are earth tones, including rust and warm reds, usually in fields of beige.
Patterns are generally repeated diamond-shaped medallions in an open field, enclosed within multiple borders.
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Arak Handmade Persian Rugs
Arak rugs are made in and around the city of Arak, which is an important region in the carpet industry.
These rugs have generally one of three major patterns.
Firstly the famous Herati pattern, which includes small fish throughout the field, with or without a central medallion.
Secondly the more curvilinear pattern of Sarough, with intertwined grapevines throughout the field and a round central medallion.
Thirdly is that of Wiss, with three diamonds making up the central medallion.
The color schemes can vary, but almost always include red and navy blue.
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Ardabil Handmade Persian Rugs
Ardabil is a city near the coast of the Caspian Sea, and is probably responsible for one of the oldest and most famous carpets in existence today, the 34' x 17' masterpiece housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Ardabil rugs usually have the famous Mahi (Herati) design, with a diamond medallion and small fish throughout.
An allover pattern is sometimes seen in an Ardabil.
Usually their weavers will incorporate a lot of silk into the woolen pile to accentuate some highlights in the pattern.
Some modern Ardabils have started to migrate from the traditional Herati pattern to bolder geometric patterns.
In addition to the usual beiges, rusts and blues, many up-to-the-minute colors can be observed in the newer Ardabils, such as a turquoise and purple.
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Ardekan Handmade Persian Rugs
Kashan is an important city in central Iran, with a magnificent history of carpet weaving dating from the 16th century.
Classic pieces show a diamond-shaped medallion with small matching spandrels on a floral field, but all-over fields of Shah Abbas flowers, pictorial and hunting scenes are also found.
They are mostly in wool, but some have been woven in pure silk.
Traditional theme colors are reds and blues, but more recently Kashans have been woven in paler beiges, with greyish-blue and olive-green tones, for the international market.
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Bakhshaish Handmade Persian Rugs
Heriz is a small town with a grand reputation.
It is located in north-western Iran, south of Tabriz in the province of Azerbaijan.
The tribal Heriz is a thicker, heavier carpet, renowned for its earth tones and geometric patterns.
While no two carpets are identical, they tend to have an attractive similarity.
Most have a large squarish medallion in black or navy set in a lighter field, with the main colors of the rug in shades of rust red, with beige, navy, brown or black details.
Sizes are usually large in these rugs, smaller sizes being rare for this group.
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Bakhtiari Handmade Persian Rugs
Bakhtiari people are a noble, ancient tribe surviving in the Chahar Mahal region of south-central Iran.
Primitive Bakhtiari rugs frequently have a checkerboard or garden pattern decorated with trees-of-life, birds, flowers and animals, sometimes realistic, sometimes abstract.
Generally these are woven with a Turkish knot.
But some very beautiful floral patterns are still produced in the principal town of Shahr Kurd with the Persian knot, showing long, exaggerated medallions reminiscent of an earlier Isfahan style.
Color schemes include many shades of brown, rust, yellow ochre, bottle green, beige, dark blue and red.
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Baluch Handmade Persian Rugs
Baluch rugs are tribal, hand-woven in the eastern part of Iran by nomadic Baluchi tribes.
The majority of them are made in the province Sistan and Baluchistan, which sits on the extreme south east border.
A lot of Baluch rugs also come out of Iran's vast province of Khorassan which is just to the north near Afghanistan, and tend to be marketed in Mashad.
Colors of Baluch rugs are usually predominantly a rich burgundy with some very dark navy blue and accents of beige.
They frequently have either an overall pattern, tree-of-life, etc.
, or a prayer rug design.
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Bidjar Handmade Persian Rugs
Birjand is a small town in north eastern Iran's Khorassan province.
Birjand rugs typically have a very elegant pattern, similar to Herati but with a European look.
These usually have a stylized round central medallion sitting in a open field of small fish on a sea of beige.
The repeated borders resemble those of the Mahi, but the Birjand is more curvilinear.
Overall, very intricate and detailed.
Color schemes include beige and navy blue, with hints of burgundy and salmon.
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Birjand Handmade Persian Rugs
Birjand is a small town in north eastern Iran's Khorassan province.
Birjand rugs typically have a very elegant pattern, similar to Herati but with a European look.
These usually have a stylized round central medallion sitting in a open field of small fish on a sea of beige.
The repeated borders resemble those of the Mahi, but the Birjand is more curvilinear.
Overall, very intricate and detailed.
Color schemes include beige and navy blue, with hints of burgundy and salmon.
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Elam Handmade Persian Rugs
Elam is one of the oldest cities in the world.
It was an important city in ancient Sumeria.
Today it sits in modern-day Kurdistan.
The carpets coming from Elam are usually Kelims or smaller pile carpets.
Simple geometric patterns woven in shades of red and rust are predominant in these carpets.
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Ferahan Handmade Persian Rugs
Ferdos is a small town in north-east Iran’s Khorassan province.
Ferdos usually makes floral or tree-of-life patterned carpets, but geometric styles can sometimes be seen.
The colors in a Ferdos rug may be any combination of reds, beiges or blues.
Ferdos was also the birthplace of Ferdowsi, one of Iran's greatest poets.
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Ferdos Handmade Persian Rugs
Ferdos is a small town in north-east Iran’s Khorassan province.
Ferdos usually makes floral or tree-of-life patterned carpets, but geometric styles can sometimes be seen.
The colors in a Ferdos rug may be any combination of reds, beiges or blues.
Ferdos was also the birthplace of Ferdowsi, one of Iran's greatest poets.
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Gabbeh Handmade Persian Rugs
The Gabbeh is a very simple hand-woven tribal rug made by nomadic people in southern Iran and India.
Its distinctive naive style is especially suited to modern and eclectic interiors.
The early weaver was given only the cotton for the base, along with dyed woolen yarn.
He had no pattern, but looked at his surroundings and reproduced what he saw.
Therefore each carpet is unique.
This spontaneous style recently achieved much wider acceptance, and became very popular at home and abroad.
Generally on a thick, heavy pile it combines large uncluttered fields with the occasional geometric human or animal silhouette.
Sometimes there are over-all abstract patterns or bold stripes.
Due to great demand for the Indo-Gabbeh, patterns were eventually made of the more popular designs.
Once production was organized, specific colors, sizes and designs could be ordered.
However, due to the variety in texture and quality of natural woolen yarn, with occasional gray fibers occurring, 'abrash' * ensures that no two rugs are identical.
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Gharadjeh Handmade Persian Rugs
The Gharadjehs are hand-woven rugs made by Turkish nomads living in the mountains and valleys between Tabriz and the Caspian Sea, in north-eastern Iran.
These tribes-people incorporate quality wool, long lasting durability, and gentle earth tone colors to produce these exquisite floor pieces.
The patterns are mainly geometric with small, interesting key medallions, and small plants or animals in occasional cases.
Gharadjeh rugs are very tough, and usually they weave small rugs, and runners up to 12 feet or more in length.
When bigger rugs are made in these regions, they are usually given other names such as Heriz, or Goravan.
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Ghoochan Handmade Persian Rugs
Ghoochan is a small town in north-west Iran's vast province of Khorassan.
The town itself is located just south-west of Mashad.
The main colors in most Goochans include a rich burgundy and a deep indigo, with accents of beige, taupe, olive green, and occasionally turquoise or baby blue.
Patterns are mostly geometric.
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Golpayegan Handmade Persian Rugs
Situated between Tehran and Hamadan, the small town of Golpayegan means 'fortress of flowers'.
It produces an attractive rug, with patterns usually curvilinear with large floral and garden details.
Golpayegans are a bit finer than many of the rugs produced in surrounding villages.
Color schemes usually include red, light blue, navy, olive, and beige.
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Goravan Handmade Persian Rugs
Goravan is a small village in north-western Iran, north of Heriz and east of Tabriz.
Goravan rugs are often mistaken for the rugs of Heriz.
They are almost identical in design, color and quality of materials used.
Often, even an expert cannot tell the difference.
Like Heriz, Goravans use earth tones to produce a very geometric tribal carpet.
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Hamadan Handmade Persian Rugs
Situated in west-central Iran, Hamadan is perhaps one of the largest centers for the trade of tribal rugs.
The patterns in Hamadans vary from primitive geometrics to floral or overall Herati designs.
Colors can also vary widely, from red, green and blue, to beige, rust, yellow and salmon.
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Hashtrood Handmade Persian Rugs
Hashtrood is a small village in western IranGÇÖs mountainous Gilan province, with limited output.
Hashtroods usually have geometric styles.
These are usually made in long runner sizes.
The colors in a Hashtrood rug may be any combination of salmon, pale blue and navy blue.
Reds are very rarely seen in Hashtrood rugs.
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Heriz Handmade Persian Rugs
Heriz is a small town with a grand reputation.
It is located in north-western Iran, south of Tabriz in the province of Azerbaijan.
The tribal Heriz is a thicker, heavier carpet, renowned for its earth tones and geometric patterns.
While no two carpets are identical, they tend to have an attractive similarity.
Most have a large squarish medallion in black or navy set in a lighter field, with the main colors of the rug in shades of rust red, with beige, navy, brown or black details.
Sizes are usually large in these rugs, smaller sizes being rare for this group.
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Hussainabad Handmade Persian Rugs
Hussainabad is situated in west-central Iran, near Hamadan.
Hussainabad rugs are frequently very long runners, and usually have an all-over pattern of small repeated fish throughout the field, with or without a small diamond-shaped central medallion.
The coloring is predominantly shades of red, navy blue, and ivory.
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Indo-Tibetans Handmade Persian Rugs
Indo-Tibetans are made by political and religious exiles from the ancient mountain kingdom.
These refugees and their descendants now live and weave in areas below the Himalayas, like India and Pakistan, closely following the ancient traditions of their people.
Generally small in size, no larger than 6 feet x 3 feet, Tibetans are made with a version of the Persian or asymetrical knot, sometimes taking in three to five strands of the typical cotton warp.
There are often areas of a man-made silk, and these rugs are usually left with a longer pile.
There is a distinctly ‘arts-and-craft’ look to these rugs, and some larger sizes are also being made in more established areas today.
Influences of the Caucasus are evident in their designs, probably from the period when Armenians and others brought goods east into Tibet and China.
There is also evidence of Baluchi and Turkoman guls or lattice designs which enliven these brilliant tribals, the Indo-Tibetan.
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Isfahan Handmade Persian Rugs
Among the finest handmade carpets ever made, Isfahan rugs are the pinnacle of the Persian carpet.
In an enchanted city, renowned for its taste and finesse, these carpets are of great delicacy and utmost intricacy.
The city of Isfahan holds pride of place in the Persian rug industry because of its rich history and reputation dating back to the 16th century.
Most Isfahan carpets are finely detailed in wool and silk, often on a base of pure silk.
Until the middle of the 20th century colors were mostly stronger, like bold reds and blues on the ubiquitous beige.
But later comes the visible influence of the international Designer, with more subdued ranges of subtler colors.
Still, at the sight of curvilinear vines snaking over an elegant field around an exquisite medallion, especially if the long fringes glisten silkily from magnificent borders, the word 'Isfahan' tends to spring to one's lips.
Patterns include pictorial and tree-of-life schemes, as well as the Shah Abbas field with its floral vines.
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Josheghan Handmade Persian Rugs
Josheghan, also known as Maymeh, is a small village north of Isfahan in Central Iran.
They usually have a main diamond medallion, embedded within another medallion, embedded within another one and so on for few times.
The main color is usually a rich burgundy accented with many blues, green and ivories.
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Kabutar Ahangh Handmade Persian Rugs
Kabutar Ahang is a small village just north of Hamadan.
The name means song of the dove.
Kabutar Ahang carpets are more floral and traditional than Hamadans.
They usually have a curvilinear diamond medallion in the center, in a field of red with scattered floral motifs throughout, enclosed with beige spandrels in a dark navy border.
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Kashan Handmade Persian Rugs
Kashan is an important city in central Iran, with a magnificent history of carpet weaving dating from the 16th century.
Classic pieces show a diamond-shaped medallion with small matching spandrels on a floral field, but all-over fields of Shah Abbas flowers, pictorial and hunting scenes are also found.
They are mostly in wool, but some have been woven in pure silk.
Traditional theme colors are reds and blues, but more recently Kashans have been woven in paler beiges, with greyish-blue and olive-green tones, for the international market.
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Kashmar Handmade Persian Rugs
The Kashmar is a relatively rare carpet produced by master weavers in the province of Khorassan, in north-eastern Iran.
The small city of Kashmar is very old, responsible for producing exquisite carpets for centuries.
Kashmars are easily distinguishable because of their unique designs and their large size.
The patterns are usually historic tableaux telling the story of a significant event in Persian history.
Frequently there are views of the ancient ruins and sculpture of Persepolis, the kings Darius and Xerxes, and birds and animals from the Rubayat of Omar Khayam.
There are also Kashmar carpets which resemble the classic Kashan, with central medallion and spandrels.
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Kerman Handmade Persian Rugs
From the city of that name in southern Persia, the incredible Kerman carpet is a soft treasure, and among the most beautiful designs woven.
The traditional motif has the main border and central medallion in an intricately-detailed, ornate architectural or floral theme in the palest pastels with white-and-gold trim.
This typically contrasts with an open field of a rich solid cranberry red, navy blue or other strong colors.
Others patterns include the finer Lavar style with garden, tree-of-life, vase and all-over mille fleur designs, or the many pictorials which tell the story of a significant figure or event in history.
Silk is almost never used.
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Khoi Handmade Persian Rugs
A very old and predominanty Christian town in north-western Iran, Khoi doesn't produce as many commercial rugs as the surrounding regions.
But Khoi rugs are usually much finer and more floral than the predominantly geometric designs woven in the surrounding areas.
Khoi carpets typically use a stylized central medallion, which is more often rounded than geometric, with floral elements throughout.
Color schemes usually include beige, light and navy blue, and salmon.
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Koliai Handmade Persian Rugs
Koliais are tribal rugs made by nomadic Kurdish people of western Iran.
They show bright and lively colors, usually with a large central medallion in hexagonal Herati diamond design and beveled spandrels.
Their products were not originally made to be sold, but intended as practical dowry articles such as floor coverings, blankets, storage bags, saddle blankets, or as insurance against future hard times.
Many Koliai carpets are runners of great length, 20 to 40 feet being common.
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Lylyan Handmade Persian Rugs
Lylyan rugs are tribal rugs made by nomadic Kurdish people of the province of Markad, in western Iran.
These people are descendants of the Kurds, and their weaving styles and designs are incredibly similar.
With bright and lively colors, Lori carpets often have traditional floral patterns, but geometric ones are also seen.
These rugs were not originally made to be sold, but meant as dowry items of practical value such as floor coverings, blankets, storage bags, saddle blankets, and as family insurance against future hard times.
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Mahabad Handmade Persian Rugs
Mahabad is a village near Tabriz, in the province of Azerbaijan in north-western Iran.
Although a Turkish dominated district, obvious traces of Kurdish influence can be seen.
Mahabad produces mainly Turkoman pieces, which are easily distinguished from other Persian rugs, with their soft, lush pile and all-over pattern of small geometric Turkish motifs.
The main color is usually a rich burgundy, deep navy, black or any of a range of beiges.
Also unlike other tribal rugs, there will be great color consistency throughout a Turkoman.
A small percentage of Mahabads are very similar in appearance to coarser Tabriz pieces, mainly because of the town's proximity to Tabriz.
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Mahal Handmade Persian Rugs
Sarough is a large village which is located near Arak in west-central Iran.
It is an important and historic center in the region, with a respected, romantic name in carpet weaving.
Patterns usually incorporate floral vines, with red and navy as predominant colors, generally carried out in wool of very high quality.
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Malayer Handmade Persian Rugs
Malayer rugs are authentic hand-woven rugs, made by semi-nomadic people living in the district near Arak in north-western Iran.
Obvious traces of Kurdish origins are seen in these tribals, with the central field of the rug having an intricately patterned medallion in shades of red.
Geometric patterns can also be found in these rugs, and many other colors besides red sometimes appear.
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Mashad Handmade Persian Rugs
Located in north-eastern Iran, Mashad is the capital of Khorassan province and an important center of the carpet weaving industry.
It is also considered the most holy city of Iran, because it houses the shrine of Imam Reza who is very dear to Muslims around the world.
Mashad carpets have elegant medallions on floral fields, with color schemes of red or blue.
They sometimes copy classic Kashan patterns, and sometimes all-over Herati details which may be marketed as Khorassan.
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Maymeh Handmade Persian Rugs
Maymeh rugs are hand-woven tribals, made in the areas around Isfahan in central Iran.
The town of Maymeh is very ancient and is sometimes referred to as Joshegan.
Finer pieces from this area are referred to as Joshegan and medium quality rugs are referred to as Maymeh.
The designs are similar to Qashqai and other geometric tribal rugs.
They usually have a series of diamond medallions, and the main colors range from rich burgundy accented with black, blue, green and many tones of ivory.
The quality is one of the highest among tribal rugs, as it is very densely knotted.
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Mehriban Handmade Persian Rugs
Heriz is a small town with a grand reputation.
It is located in north-western Iran, south of Tabriz in the province of Azerbaijan.
The tribal Heriz is a thicker, heavier carpet, renowned for its earth tones and geometric patterns.
While no two carpets are identical, they tend to have an attractive similarity.
Most have a large squarish medallion in black or navy set in a lighter field, with the main colors of the rug in shades of rust red, with beige, navy, brown or black details.
Sizes are usually large in these rugs, smaller sizes being rare for this group.
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Meshkinshahr Handmade Persian Rugs
Meshkinshahr is a small village in north-western Iran, in the rugged mountains of Azerbaijan.
Bright colors and attractive geometric patterns are typical of Turko-Persian weavings from this area, with good quality materials.
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