Gabbeh Rug
Gabbeh rugs are woven for centuries which are mainly tribal rugs in the South central Mountain range. Gabbeh is known as Gava in Kurdish and in...
Balouch Rug
The most common and dominant feature of Balouch rugs is that it has a very geometric and intricate design that mainly borrowed from Turkmen style. The...
Sumak Rug
Sumak rugs which are also spelled as Soumak mainly produce flat weave rugs which are strong, thick and highly durable too. These types of rugs are...
These rugs are characterized by flat stitching (rugs woven without pile) with the colored ends of the wool hanging loose on the back. The first oriental rugs that history recorded were these napless rugs,...
Caucasian Rug
The north of Iran is a large rug weaving district which has been referred to “The Caucasus”. It extends from the Black Sea on the west...
Turkoman Rug
The Turkoman tribesman, whose ancestors were the Mongol Turks, settled between Bojnurd and Gonband-Kavus (towns located to the south east of the Caspian Sea). Some of...
A great number of rugs are made by the Baluchi tribes which have settled in the region of Khorasan since the 18th century around Mashhad, Torbat-e-Heydariyeh, Torbat-e-jam, Sarakhs and in the Province of Sistan-Baluchestan...
The town of Kashmar is about 150 kilometers South-west of Mashhad produces a great number of large sizes with different designs from Kashan, Kerman, Tabriz, and Varamin. The main colors are red and dark...
The finest carpets of Khorasan come from the Birjand region; the designs that are most preferred by the weavers of this region are Harati (bee fish) and Botteh. Orange-red, used with a contrasting blue...