Rug Persian

Rare Antique Meshkabad Persian Rug (26'9 x 37')-Antique Persian

Price: $134,999.98*
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One-of-a-kind Meshkabad rug is unrivaled in size and materials Hand-woven Persian rug is crafted from 100-percent fine lamb's wool Currently believed to be the largest floor rug of its kind in the United States

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The Persian rug is an essential part of Persian art and culture. Carpet-weaving is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished manifestations of Persian culture and art, and dates back to the Bronze Age.

The earliest surviving corpus of Persian carpets come from the Safavid dynasty (1501-1736) in the 16th century. However, painted depictions prove a longer history of production. There is much variety among classical Persian carpets of the 16th and 17th century. Common motifs include scrolling vine networks, arabesques, palmettes, cloud bands, medallions, and overlapping geometric compartments rather than animals and humans. Persian Art being based in Shia Islam does not take the hard line against human representation that we see in Sunni influenced Turkish rug weaving. Figural designs are particularly popular in the Iranian market and are not nearly as common in rugs exported to the west.

Hand-tufted Namoste Red Wool Rug (8' x 10'6)

Price: $407.99*
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Luxurious area rug is hand-tufted of 100-percent wool Fashionable floor rug is sure to accent any room in your home Traditional Persian rug features rusty red background with cream/gold border

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Hand-tufted Namoste Red Wool Rug (5' x 8')

Price: $194.99*
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Luxurious area rug is hand-tufted of 100-percent woolFashionable floor rug is sure to accent any room in your homeTraditional Persian rug features rusty red background with cream/gold border

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With the passage of time, the materials used in carpets, including wool and cotton, decay. Therefore archaeologists are not able to make any particularly useful discoveries during archaeological excavations, save for special circumstances.

What has remained from early times as evidence of carpet-weaving is nothing more than a few pieces of worn-out rugs. Such fragments do not help very much in recognizing the carpet-weaving characteristics of pre-Seljuk period (13th and 14th centuries AD) in Persia.

Among the oldest pieces discovered are those found in Eastern Turkestan, dating back to the third to fifth centuries AD, and also some of the hand-weavings of the Seljuks of Asia Minor on exhibit in Ala’edin Mosque in Konya and Ashrafoghlu Mosque in Beyshehir, Turkey. These pieces attracted the attention of researchers earlier this century, and now they are kept in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in Istanbul and the Mowlana Museum in Konya.

In a unique archaeological excavation in 1949 however, the exceptional Pazyryk carpet was discovered among the ices of Pazyryk Valley, in Altai Mountains in Siberia. It was discovered in the grave of a Scythian prince by a group of Russian archaeologists under the supervision of Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko. Radiocarbon testing initially indicated that the Pazyryk carpet was woven in the 5th century BC but correction of a calibration error later gave a date 200 years later circa 300 AD. This carpet is 1.83×2 meters and has 36 symmetrical knots per cm². The advanced weaving technique used in the Pazyryk carpet indicates a long history of evolution and experience in this art. Most experts believe that the Pazyryk carpet is a late achievement of at least one thousand years of technique evolution and history.

According to this theory the art of carpet-weaving is at least 3500 years old.