11249 · 10'2" x 13'10" Persian Gabbeh Oversized Rug
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Tall bands of brown and seal brown run the whole length of this remarkable rug. On a stone field, stripes of seal brown and gray brown rise from end to end, their edges stepped where they break and meet. There is no medallion, and the stripes themselves make the plan. A splendid column of dark brown squares hangs near the top, and low on one side a rectangle holds alternating bands of seal brown and gray brown. Fine dark lines and short dashes run between the wider stripes. A handsome seal brown border, narrow and plain, frames the field on all four sides. The pile is low and runs unbroken over the whole face. It slips into a quiet modern room, with the stone ground keeping it light and the seal brown giving it weight. At 10'2" by 13'10", 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. A field of one or two colors may carry a stylized animal or a few blocks. This rug keeps a stone field and sets a few blocks on it: a column of dark brown squares near the top and a banded rectangle low on one side. Around them, long stripes of seal brown and gray brown run from end to end, broken into steps where they meet. A narrow seal brown band closes the whole design at the edges.
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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