{"title":"60+ years","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"tabriz-persian-212x296cm-sku7","title":"1945 Persian Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Medallion Garden, Unused","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthentic Persian hand-knotted rug, woven about 1945 and kept unused. Size 296 × 212 cm. Wool on wool, asymmetrical Persian knots, vegetable dyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the wool and knots are\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWool on wool: pile and structure both sheep’s wool. The Persian knot makes a dense, fine, flexible weave. After eighty years in storage the drawing is still clear because the yarn was packed with care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the real world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Persian garden. Ivory medallion at center, the pool or pavilion. Palmettes and blossoms grow across a madder-red field. Ivory corners open to light. The green border is the outer wall. This marked the best room: guests, tea, standing shown without speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the inner world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParadise underfoot. Water at the center. Life moving outward. A wall that keeps the garden whole. Red is celebration. Ivory is light. Green is living hedge. Both ends match so the garden is complete from either door.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it mattered to weavers and the culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unused 1945 carpet is a life’s work that waited. Workshop skill shows in a medallion that sits true and a border that turns. In many houses the loom was as serious as the kitchen. This piece held the year it was finished until the day it was first unrolled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. 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The ivory sawtooth edge is the running mountain, the boundary. Striped brown-and-red ends are the woven hem. A small rug for wall, bedside, or over another carpet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the inner world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach diamond is a guarded plot of life. The sawtooth is the ridge that keeps the garden from spilling. Red is earth after rain. Dark brown is soil and night. Ivory is light on the ridge. A small cloth still says: this ground is ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it mattered to weavers and the culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKilims were the everyday language of Afghan village looms, faster than a piled rug, still full of meaning. Unused mid-century condition means the signs were kept, not worn away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of a kind. 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Natural abrash, the small shifts of color in hand-dyed wool, is part of the life of the piece, not a fault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the real world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe field is a lattice of diamonds on a taupe ground: red, purple, brown, and lime, each with a small cross or flower at the heart. In Afghan village and nomadic weaving a diamond is a seed plot, a field, and a protected house. Repeated across the cloth they become a garden of plots, harvest and heritage counted in squares.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe borders are multicolored stripes set with small diamonds and triangular accents, lights along a path, the edge of a courtyard. This is tribal drawing with a lived-in ease: it sits as well in a collected room as it once sat in a tent or village house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the design is in the inner world\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiamonds in this language often mean protection, prosperity, and belonging. A mark in the center of a diamond is a hearth inside a wall. Lime and rose are spring. Red and purple are ripeness. The taupe field is earth at rest. Color here is a dry-land wish: that the ground stay alive, that the house stay watched, that plenty return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy it mattered to weavers and the culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese techniques were passed through Afghan nomadic and village families for generations. A kilim was faster than a piled carpet and still full of meaning, a textile that could travel, gift, warm a floor, or hang on a wall. Skill shows in the diamonds staying in rank, the border colors keeping time, and the fringe left as the warp. Excellent vintage condition. One of a kind. 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