11192 · 7'1" x 10'4" Persian Bakhtiari Area Rug
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A red and navy star sits at the heart of this lovely rug. Across a cream field, red flower heads and navy blossoms grow on slender vines around the center. The medallion is an eight-pointed star, its red points holding small flowering trees and its navy points holding red flower heads. Green leaves radiate from a small navy star at the core. A handsome red pendant with a tree inside sits above the star, and another sits below it. Blue spandrels fill the four corners, each holding a green cartouche of red flowers beside tall red sprays. The deep red main border carries a pretty vine of flowers in navy, green and cream. Narrow guard stripes set with small rosettes run on either side of it. The pile is low across the rug. The dense drawing brings deep red and navy into a room, while the cream ground keeps the center bright. At 7'1" by 10'4", it fits a dining table for four with the chairs pulled out, or a living room with the sofa and chairs fully on it.
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 Bakhtiari rugs
In 1909 Bakhtiari tribesmen under the chief Sardar Assad captured Tehran in a successful campaign for constitutional reform. Bakhtiari rugs were made under the patronage of the tribe in certain villages southwest of Isfahan. Bakhtiari weaving comes from the Zagros mountains of western Persia, and the garden panel is its signature. Bakhtiari weavers moved their herds twice a year. In the garden panel, each compartment holds its own tree, vase or flowering plant. This rug gives its star the same habit: each point holds its own small tree or spray of flowers. Around the star, the cream field stays open and bright, set with red flower heads and navy blossoms. The blue corners frame it with green cartouches.
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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