Description
Tabriz are famous for producing finely woven carpets, since the 15th century. This early 20th century example uses designs from ancient Tabriz carpets and is in excellent condition all over. The wool pile is excellent and high all over, no old repairs visible and original fringes are showing on this handsome carpet too. With an all over design, the drawing has been executed to perfection, with great symmetry, using an apricot background and light off white border.
Perfect to enhance any room, it is a durable and strong carpet for the living room, dining room, entrance hall or bedroom. We supply underlay with every carpet to help keep the carpet flat and secure on the floor.
If you request a home visit we will happily bring this Tabriz carpet for you to view in situ at a time and convenient day to suit you. We have offered this free, professional service for over 30 years, our team of experts have been working with antique carpets since 1990.
At the end of the 19th century, after a prolonged period of dormancy, the Persian town of Tabriz experienced an artistic revival and successfully reasserted itself into the forefront of the rug-making world. Perhaps one of the most important figures in this reawakening of Tabriz as an important rug-making centre was the master weaver Haji Jalili, from the nearby of Marand. Haji Jalili is best known today for his incredible and unique approach to rug-making and his preference for distinctive colour palettes and design elements.
The major city of Tabriz, located near the Turkish border, is the centre of classically designed antique carpets in Northwest Persia. At the foot of the beautiful Elbruz Mountains, Tabriz has a noteworthy history, both as the Persian market centre most linked geographically to European and Western commerce, and as the source of the most venerated weavings: the inspired carpets of the Shah Abbas period during the 15th and 16th centuries.
