11081 · 11'6" x 19' Persian Gabbeh Oversized Rug
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Bold coral ribbons twist all the way around this lovely rug. Over a dusty blue field, streaks of blue and pale sand run side by side in loose, broken blocks. At one end the field gives way to a wide band of rust that darkens toward the border. There is no medallion, and the field stays open from end to end. A handsome cream border is laid out as long framed panels, each edged in coral. Inside each panel a graceful coral ribbon loops and twists along its length, with a ring at the center of every run. Knotted loops close the long cartouches at the two sides. The pile is low. It slips into a large open room, where the coral ribbons warm the cool blue of the field. At 11'6" by 19', it fits a dining table for six with the chairs pulled out, or a full living room seating group.
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 Gabbeh rugs
The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns a gabbeh of the late 19th century, which came to it with the Ballard Collection in 1922. Some early rugs of the Lur and Qashqai tribes of Fars were lion rugs, the whole field taken up by one large lion. Gabbeh is a style rather than a place: tribal weaving from the Zagros country of southern Persia, with almost no pattern. A field of one or two colors may carry a stylized animal or a few blocks. This rug keeps that open field, with two main colors, blue and rust, set in broad streaked blocks and no figure inside them. Around it runs a cream border of framed panels, each carrying a coral ribbon of loops and knots on all four sides.
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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