11028 · 5'3" x 8'9" Persian Bijar Area Rug
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A near-black diamond medallion sits at the heart of this lovely rug. Worked on a deep red field that reads burgundy from across a room, a fine diamond lattice holds small cream rosettes, curled leaves and rose blossoms. The stepped near-black medallion carries a slate blue ring of lobed rose flower heads around a small core, with a pendant at its top and bottom. Handsome near-black spandrels fill the four corners, each holding a large rose palmette, cream stems and small slate blue rosettes. The beautiful cream border carries slate blue diamonds, small red blossoms and curled leaves. Slate blue guard stripes with a small red flower repeat run on either side, and a red band closes the outer edge. The pile is low across the field and the border. It brings deep red and rose into a bedroom or study, cooled by the slate blue and cream around the edge. At 5'3" by 8'9", it fits a bedroom beside the bed, a study under a desk, or a small sitting area.
Every 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 & cleaned. It ships folded and fully insured.
About Bijar rugs
The story goes that during the Timurid invasions a body of Torkaman followed the conqueror west and settled around Bijar. Bijar weavers made a remarkable number of vagirehs, sample pieces showing portions of several patterns and borders, used as models for large carpets. Bijar in Kurdistan has long been called the iron rug of Persia, and its designs are geometric. This rug keeps to that geometry. The medallion is a stepped diamond, the spandrels step inward in squared lines, and a diamond lattice runs across the whole field. The small flowers sit on the points of that grid. The near-black of the center and the four corners sets a dark frame within the red, and the cream border closes it with a row of slate blue diamonds.
Shipping & delivery
Shipping is free and fully insured in the US and Canada. To the UK, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand we ship fully insured, with rates calculated at checkout. Orders are processed and shipped within one to four days and most arrive within about ten days, sometimes as fast as three depending on your location, carefully wrapped, with tracking sent the moment your rug leaves us.
Full shipping detailsAuthenticity
Every rug is an original, hand-knotted vintage piece, never machine-made, printed or reproduced. We inspect and photograph each rug in our own studio, so the piece you see is the exact piece you receive.
Our authenticity promiseCare & cleaning
Vacuum gently, rotate every few months, blot spills immediately and use a quality rug pad. Have it professionally cleaned every few years, never machine-washed.
Full care guideReturns
If a rug isn’t right for your space, get in touch within 7 days of delivery (14 days in the European Union) and we’ll help arrange a return or exchange. Because each piece is one of a kind, we handle every return personally.
Returns & exchangesMade entirely by hand.
Every knot in this rug was tied by hand, one at a time, on an upright loom. A piece like this is the work of two or three weavers sitting side by side for months, wool worked row by row into a pattern carried from memory, its colors softened by decades of light and use. Nothing about it was quick, and no two are ever the same.
The kind of thing that only gets better with age, and quietly passes from one home to the next.
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