Antique Persian Qashqai Gallery Kilim

Name: Antique Persian Qashqai Gallery Kilim
SKU: 1672
Availability: InStock

Rug #1672

Size: 415 x 170 cm / 13.6 x 5.6 ft

Handwoven in: Qashqai, Iran

Age: Antique

Design: Stripe, Modern

Materials: All Wool

Category: Kilims

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Antique Persian Qashqai Gallery Kilim Modern | Stripe All Wool

This Persian Qashqai kilim is published in;

THE PERSIAN CARPET, ‘The Fabric of Life’, Essie Sakhai, Woodbridge, 2008.

pl. 253, pp. 310-311.

The oldest surviving examples of Qashqa’i ghileems probably do
not pre-date the middle of the 19th century but the sophistication of these is
such that they obviously represent a very long history. It is hardly surprising
that no older examples have survived: flatweaves, although strong, are
fragile compared to pile rugs and such pieces were made by tribal groups
strictly for their own use; they were not traded as export goods and the
comparatively few examples that reached the West in the 19th and early-20th
centuries were brought back as cheap (and very light and easily transport –
able) tourist souvenirs or as wrappings for bales of pile rugs. Even today,
Iranians and Turks find it very difficult to understand why collectors in the
West take seriously what they themselves consider to be crude peasant
weavings. The ghileem shown here is an example of a comparatively rare
group in a long narrow format and with horizontal bands of different widths
and contrasting colours separated by ivory and dark brown ‘running dog’
guards and each containing repeated geometric motifs. They are generally
among the most sophisticated and finely woven of Qashqa’i flatwoven artefacts.

Antique Persian Qashqai Gallery Kilim. This piece was handwoven in Qashqai , Iran. For further information please contact us and our team will be pleased to assist you. All pieces in the collection are under the auspices of Essie Sakhai, one of the world’s foremost experts and collectors of fine handmade Persian rugs and carpets.

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