Carpet of Kurdistan

These rugs are woven in the western part of Iran

Ninety thousand people are engaged in carpet weaving in the area and using local raw materials for carpet weaving.

It is a mountainous region and its cold and mountainous climate has had an impact on the wool of the sheep and thus on the woven rugs in the area.

The Kurdistan rug can be divided into three categories

senneh rugs

bijar carpet

Afshar or nomadic carpet

senneh rugs

The rug is softer than other rugs and has shorter hair

It is usually woven in small dimensions

map of this rugs

Fish.Bush. Four bushes. Eight bushes. Flower and bird. is

These rugs are mostly woven in the city of Sanandaj

There are 12 to 30 knots per square centimeter

bijar carpet

This carpet is described separately because of its quality and quality, which you can refer to the Bijar carpet section by clicking on Bijar.

Bijar carpets are usually map for made this carpet : fish, tourang, shah Abbasi and flowers

The hairs on the carpet are too long

There are 12 to 20 knots per square centimeter

The dimensions of these rugs are usually large

Afshar or nomadic carpet

These rugs are produced in the city of Saqez and Divan Darreh and Baneh

Camel wool is usually used in these carpets

The dominant color of these carpets is red, yellow and brown

size of this rugs are littele roughly

a few years ago due to the good skill of the Kurdistan weavers in the area.

Some of these weavers have made Tabriz silk root carpets and carpets which did not have the quality of the preliminary work, but nowadays Tabriz silk carpets with different colors and sometimes better quality than Tabriz itself. The area is woven and marketed under the name of Tabriz Carpet