{"product_id":"11024-5x7-persian-handmade-shiraz-vintage-rug","title":"11024 - Persian Shiraz Area Rug 4'9\" x 6'9\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis lovely rug sets a cream diamond between four steel blue corners. The deep red field is laid out as a broad stepped hexagon, scattered with small diamonds, crosses and flower heads in blue, orange and brown. At the center, the cream diamond medallion holds a red cross around a brown core, with steel blue pendants tipped in orange hexagons above and below. The spandrels are steel blue, each carrying a handsome red hexagon flanked by cream hooked forms. The main border has a cream ground, with a steel blue vine scrolling between graceful flowers in orange and red. A brown guard stripe dotted with red runs inside it, and a narrow red stripe closes the outer edge. The pile is worn low across much of the field, and the foundation shows through. Near one end the red reads paler. It slips into a quiet room easily, its steel blue and cream cooling the deep red at its heart. At 4'9\" by 6'9\", it fits a bedroom beside the bed, a study under a desk, or a small sitting area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUNESCO records that the women of Fars design, choose the colors and weave without a cartoon, so that no weaver makes two carpets of the same design. In Fars the men shear the sheep in spring or autumn and build the loom, a horizontal frame placed on the ground, while the women spin the yarn. Rugs sold under the name Shiraz were woven by tribal and village weavers around the market city of Fars province in southern Persia. Geometric drawing is the rule there. No two are laid out in quite the same way. This rug shares that geometric line, from the stepped hexagon of the field to the hooked forms in each corner and the diamond at its center. Its border carries a rounder scrolling vine of flowers in orange and red on cream, framing the hard-edged 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":68049373495609,"sku":"AL_11024_145x205","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/6964\/5369\/files\/11024_1.jpg?v=1794374477","url":"https:\/\/storiedrugs.com\/products\/11024-5x7-persian-handmade-shiraz-vintage-rug","provider":"Storied Rugs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}