{"product_id":"11019-3x13-persian-handmade-malayer-vintage-runner-rug","title":"11019 - Persian Malayer Runner Rug 3'3\" x 13'3\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe brick field, crowded with tiny flower heads, gives this lovely runner its warmth. Rows of herati, the fish-and-leaf lattice, fill the brick field from end to end. Each small diamond holds an orange, cream or blue rosette, ringed by dark curling leaves. The field is an all-over repeat with no medallion, so the pattern runs the whole length. The handsome main border has a near-black ground carrying orange and cream flower heads on a graceful vine, with larger blue flowers set at intervals. A cream sawtooth guard stripe edges the field, and narrow brick stripes run on either side of the border. The pile is low. The dense drawing keeps a long hall lively, and the blue flowers in the border cool all that brick and orange. At 3'3\" by 13'3\", it fits a hallway or the space along the side of a bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Victoria and Albert Museum holds a carpet of 1850 to 1875 in the Mahi design that it catalogs as possibly Hamedan or Malayer. Rugs from the villages around Hamedan were taken to the city, long one of the great rug markets of Persia, and were often sold abroad under its name. Malayer sits between Hamedan and Arak in western Persia, which is exactly where its weaving sits too. It joins the village tradition of Hamedan with the floral drawing of the Arak district. The Mahi design is the herati, the fish-and-leaf lattice, and this runner carries it from end to end: one small unit repeated down the brick field, with dark outlines that keep every flower clear. The cream sawtooth line holds the lattice in. In the border, the blue flowers sit at steady intervals along the near-black ground, and its orange touches answer the orange rosettes of the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery rug we sell is one of a kind, and this is the only one like it. Hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation, vintage, approx. 50 years (1970s). Condition: professionally washed \u0026amp; cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Storied Rugs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68008454914361,"sku":"AL_11019_100x403","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11019_1.jpg?v=1794086097","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11019-3x13-persian-handmade-malayer-vintage-runner-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}