Description
A wonderful early antique Heriz carpet woven around circa 1880 with the best early green dyes and and pale blue natural colours. The pale blue, green tone corners are faded and a palette of warm terracotta brick tones and deep blue almost black border. In exceptional condition with a medium wool pile height all over, these carpets are known for being incredibly tough. One of the best designs and well spaced out drawing, the border motif is exquisite, large leaves and golden flowers. The central medallion is beautiful too, one of the best we have had.
Request a home visit to view this stunning antique Heriz carpet in the privacy of your own home. We travel all over the UK showing our carpets and rugs in-situ, a professional service we have offered for the last 30 years.
Book in a showroom visit if preferred, we are open Monday to Saturday 9.30-5.30pm by appointment. As it is best to make a time to make sure someone is here to help you and show you this Heriz.
If you love this Heriz and do not want to miss out on it, please use our reservation service, we understand you may not always be 100% ready to purchase, but your home or project is nearing completion and so we would happily do this for you to help.
50 kilometres south of the city of Heriz lies another city called Sharabian. This city was known for producing much finer and tightly woven Heriz carpets with intricate designs and excellent dyes. Woven in East Azerbaijan (North-West Persia) these decorative Heriz carpets have always been regarded as beautiful, tough objects of decoration for the floor. This piece is no exception, beautifully hand-woven which gorgeous colours of yellow, pale blues and warm red tones. In outstanding condition throughout, this carpet has been used over the last 100 years and has just been professionally washed by our workshop.
The reason Heriz rugs are so tough is that Mount Sabalan is located close to Heriz and sits on a major deposit of copper. Traces of copper in the drinking water for the sheep produces high quality wool that is far more resilient than wool from other areas.
