24246 - Shiraz Signed Dated 2003 /Hand-Knootted/Handmade Persian Rug/Carpet Tribal/Nomadic Authentic/Size: 7'8" x 4'9"

24246 - Shiraz Signed Dated 2003 /Hand-Knootted/Handmade Persian Rug/Carpet Tribal/Nomadic Authentic/Size: 7'8" x 4'9"NR: 24246Location: Shiraz Signed Dated 2003Size: 7'8" x 4'9" Country: Iran Pile: Wool Base: Cotton Details: Shiraz carpets are hand knotted on ground looms by the nomadic and semi nomadic peoples living on the Fars tableland. The warp and weft of these carpets are wool except for some types knotted by semi nomadic people who use cotton. The weft can be either single or double, according to the tribe, but the pile is always wool. Some tribes use the

Balutchis are almost exclusively nomad work and are woven

Besides being Afghanistan's best produces

Shiraz carpets are usually made with wool warps and wefts

LOW/MEDIUM TO MEDIUM

The latter are almost always decorated with a Greek-key motif

Size: 5'10" x 3'7"/ 178cm x 109cm

The first looms were set up in the holy city of Ghom around the 1930s as a result of the initiative of a group of merchants from Kashan

almost more than half of them do not come from the Baluchistan Region which stretches from south-western Iran to central Pakistan

American Saroughs use either rich rosy reds with blues and paler rose outlining the motifs

or herati-like motifs

Those Sumac rugs that are embroidered with silk make better decorative rugs than floor rugs

along the border) than other Hatchlu rugs and may have differing background shades throughout the same rug