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Gorevan Rugs
Gorevan is a village in the Heriz district of northwest Persia. Its rugs share the Heriz vocabulary of large angular medallions and cornerpieces, drawn a little more boldly and knotted a little more coarsely. That coarser build is part of the appeal: these are rugs made to be walked on. Runners are the most common size here, alongside area and room-size pieces, all of them decades old and none repeated.
Gorevan: the bolder hand of the Heriz district
Gorevan is a village in the Heriz district of northwest Persia, and its carpets speak the same language as Heriz: a large angular medallion, squared corner brackets, and a field of stylized vines. The difference is in the hand. Gorevan drawing is broader, the knot count is generally lower, and the whole carpet looks bolder.
For a long time that made Gorevan the value end of the Heriz district. It is a fair description commercially, and a poor one aesthetically, because the boldness is genuinely attractive in a large room.
The marks of a Gorevan
- Drawing: a big geometric medallion with strong corners, drawn with fewer, larger elements than a Heriz.
- Color: deep red and burgundy grounds, indigo medallions, ivory corners.
- Construction: low wool pile on cotton, coarser knotting, heavy and hard-wearing.
- Sizes: runners are the most common here, alongside area and oversized pieces.
Built for long halls
Gorevan runners are unusually good hallway rugs. The pattern is large enough to make sense as you walk over it, and the coarse build takes daily traffic without complaint.
In a larger size, a Gorevan does the same job as a Heriz in a room that does not need the finer drawing.
How to tell it from a Heriz
Turn the rug over. A Heriz back shows more knots per inch and finer definition in the medallion outline; a Gorevan back is coarser and the design steps in larger increments. On the front, look at the corner brackets: Gorevan corners are usually simpler and more angular.
Gorevan, briefly
Is Gorevan a lesser Heriz?
It is a coarser one, which is not the same thing. For a floor that gets hard use, a Gorevan is often the more sensible rug.
Are they good for hallways?
Very. The runners in this collection are the strongest argument for the district.
Where exactly is Gorevan?
It is a village in the Heriz weaving district of East Azerbaijan, northwest Persia, a short distance from Heriz itself.
Narrowing down a Gorevan
Start with shape, since the runners and the room sizes suit very different spaces. Each Gorevan on this page was knotted between the 1940s and the 1980s, and you will not find a second one like it.
Gorevan is one of the villages of the Heriz district. To see the district as a whole, including Heriz and Gharajeh, browse Heriz rugs.