Antique Persian Bidjar Rug

An early 20th century Persian Bidjar featuring multiple intrinsic abrashes from somber shades of charcoal and grey to numerous tone-on-tone blues. The large allover quatrefoil floral design utilizes a palette of rusts, madder red, and golden yellows. The smaller angular and rectilinear patterns pertain to the history of Bidjar carpets known as tribal town and village rugs. Town and village rugs are woven by a single person or small group versus large professional workshops with guides to follow knot-by-knot on grid paper...

An early 20th century Persian Bidjar.

An early 20th century Persian Bidjar.

Malayer is one of over 100 weaving villages outside of Hamadan in Northwestern Iran. Malayer has many popular parks with lush greenery and colorful birds. The patterns of Malayer rug...

This dark indigo ground example shows characteristic forked arabesques in ecru rather than the more usual red, along with ivory lazy petal palmettes. Rose and light blue details. Red...

Antique Persian Bijar rug. Size: 11'0" x 18'2".

Antique N.E Persian rug, Size: 6'2" x 14'0".

Antique Persian Bijar rug, size: 4'1" x 14'5".