1945 Persian Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Medallion Garden, Unused
1945 Persian Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Medallion Garden, Unused
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- 296 x 212 cm (9 ft 9 in x 6 ft 11 in), 6.3 sqm
- Wool pile on wool foundation, hand-knotted
- Woven in Persia
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- Lifetime warranty*
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Authentic Persian hand-knotted rug, woven about 1945 and kept unused. Size 296 × 212 cm. Wool on wool, asymmetrical Persian knots, vegetable dyes.
What the wool and knots are
Wool 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.
What the design is in the real world
A 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.
What the design is in the inner world
Paradise 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.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
An 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.
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Description
What the wool and knots are
Wool 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.
What the design is in the real world
A 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.
What the design is in the inner world
Paradise 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.
Why it mattered to weavers and the culture
An 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.
Material
Wool
Hand-spun sheep’s wool is springy and warm. It holds dye inside the fibre, recovers after it is walked on, and wears slowly, over decades rather than years.
The foundation, the grid of threads the rug is woven on, is wool too, so the whole rug moves and ages as one.
Specifications
- Size
- 212 × 296 cm (6 ft 11 in × 9 ft 9 in)
- Area
- 6.3 m²
- Shape
- Rectangular
- Pile
- Wool
- Foundation
- Wool
Foundation
The warp and weft: the grid of threads the pile is knotted onto. A cotton foundation keeps a rug flat and square; a wool one moves with the pile.
- Weave
- Hand-Knotted
Weave
Hand-knotted rugs have a pile made of individual knots tied by hand around the warp. Flatweaves such as kilims are woven with no pile, so they are thinner and often reversible.
- Age
- About 81 years
- Condition
- Excellent
- Made in
- Persia
- Design
- Persian Medallion Garden
- Colours
- Red / Rust, Ivory / Cream
- Rug ID
- 7
