Persian Mashhad Kashmar Rug - 3.90 x 2.95 Extra Large

Persian Mashhad Kashmar Rug - 3.90 x 2.95 Extra LargeMeshed (Mashehad) is the modern capital of Khorasan, in North Iran. It is near both the Russian Turkestan and the Afghanistan borders. Mesheds are usually decorated with all over designs, florals, herati or Islim. Colours are varied and are bright. Red (especially plum) is favoured. So is purple rose. Green is also popular. The border normally reflects the central motif, while the two narrow flanking guard borders are often likely to be floral design.

still weave Persian carpets with influences carried forward from the 16th century

Fairly recently rugs have been made in the city of Hamadan itself

and in the lower corners are two birds which are auspicious

This is a beautiful rosette/flower shaped central medallion rug

reminding us of birth life and creation itself

The carpet is from the city of Qum

Pictorial rugs

It has the peculiarity of not having produced carpets until the early 1930s

Their best-known carpets in fact are made by and tribeswomen in southern Iran’s Kerman and Hormozgan provinces

near the Alborz mountains

It has a very definite curvilinear theme that runs throughout it

and in manuscript borders