Detailed Product Description

Pile: Handspun Wool

Warp: Cotton

Weft: Cotton

Selvedge: Handspun Wool

Pattern: Handspun Wool, Open Field Design Decorated with Beautiful Two Human Faces

Weight: 5 Kilograms

Knots: 810,000 knots per square metre

Total Knots in Whole Carpet: 2,203,200 knots

Dye: Natural Vegetable Colors

Condition: Perfect Condition for this Age and Allover Thin

Description of Design and History:
This extremely fine Senneh with Camel Hair Colour background, withits exquisite patterning and distinctive open field proportions,represents the best type of the town\´s period weavings, from which fewacceptably preserved items of aesthetic merit have survived. The fourpoint pastel blue centre medallion is covered with beautiful dark blueHerati elements, decorated with artistic two human faces. The massiveproportions of the corner pieces are admirably judged to counterbalancethe scale of the medallion, while continuing the focal ornaments designand colouring. The main border decorated with Herati design is inbetween two mirror borders and an extra slender border which hascalligraphy of Persian words (Mobarak Bad) meaning congratulations.This excellent piece was woven by a young girl who dreamt of gettingmarried, and that is also one of the reasons for the human faces in therug which wishes congratulations to her. Interesting are the mirrorborders which are different and decorated in different flowers, to giveextra beauty to this lovely piece. This exquisite rug has a pileclipped to paper thin fragility, with the knotting as fine as theSenneh workshops could achieve.