Old Persian Heriz carpet 3.56×2.45m

Description

Title: Old Persian Heriz Carpet

Size: 3.56×2.45m / 11’8″x8’1″ Thickness: 10mm

Origin: Heriz, Azerbaijan Province, north Persia.

Technique: Hand-knotted.

Material: Wool pile, knotted onto cotton warps.

Colours and Design: This old Heriz carpet has mature colours. These lovely colours include: brick red, blue-black, grey, charcoal, blues, chestnut and walnut browns and cream. It has a classic Heriz design with a large geometric medallion that stretches almost to the borders.

Condition/Age: This old Persian Heriz carpet has some areas of low pile (see image 7 & 8) as well as a small old repair measuring 5x3cm on one end (see image 9). The shape is slightly irregular in that it is longer on one side. It has been recently professional washed and is ready for immediate use. It is somewhere in the region of 40 years old.

Additional Information:

The town of Heriz is approximately 40 miles east of the city of Tabriz in north-western Persia. Carpets have been woven in and around the town of Heriz since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Given its geographical proximity to Tabriz (a historically important centre of Persian rug and carpet production) this has probably encouraged the manufacture in the Heriz area.

Heriz carpets are characteristically geometric in design, usually with a distinctive rectilinear medallion that reaches almost to the borders of the carpet. Reds and browns are the traditional primary colours, with secondary colours typically blue, yellows and creams.

These carpets are amongst the heaviest and most durable Persian carpets that are produced. The weave is unique to Heriz. It is chunky and robust. Heriz carpets are woven using a double-weft construction (i.e. two wefts between each row of knots), and employing the Turkish (or symmetrical) knot. The pile formed is substantial, and the wool used is of a particularly durable quality. The warps and wefts are distinctively thick and made of cotton. It is unusual for Heriz to make carpets in smaller sizes, but examples do exist. However the weavers of Heriz tend to weave mainly carpet sizes (i.e. 3.50m x 2.50m upwards).

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