Description
Since the 18th Century, Farahan carpets from between Arak and Kashan have ranked among the best decorative carpets and rugs in Persia. The various mosaic designs of these rugs, of which there are around 20 variants compose of, the famous ‘Herati’ pattern, central motif designs, tree of life prayer designs and diamonds filled with rosettes. The border designs are ornamented with angular palmettes, leaves, rosettes. Colours tend to be light blue, purple/mauve tones, yellow or rare natural white ground.
This 150 year old Farahan has such character and subtle natural faded dyes, with a rare open natural wool field colour, the corner spandrels are striking and are almost black in colour. With a large scale border design, typical of earlier examples in soft brick reds. An ancient and wonderful carpet to place in a room, this would look instantly like it had lived in a space for the last 100 plus years.
Some low areas of wear as you can see in the additional images, but still a strong and durable antique carpet, supplied with our anti-slip underlay included in the price.
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Fereghan carpets are unlike their neighbours Sarouk which are more formal often using an elaborate central medallion. Fereghan weavers preferred floral motifs of shrubs and vines using more green dyes and hints of yellow. Fereghan or Ferahan rugs were woven in the Arak district which was once the capital of Persia. They wove a variety of designs with Sarouk-Fereghan rugs more classical in their structure and rugs from Malayer and Fereghan using palmettes, shrubs, geometric motifs.
