Old style Persian runner

Product Specifications

Product category: Iranian handwoven carpet

Product name: Malayer carpet

Materials used in carpet weaving: natural wool

Carpet design and decoration: Traditional and Caucasian motifs

Place of carpet weaving: Iran

Carpet size: 290x115cm

Carpet thickness: 10 mm

Carpet age: 15 years

Warp: cotton

Pile: wool

Wefts: cotton

Number of knots per square centimeter: 25

The number of handmade knots in the whole carpet: 833750 pieces

Time taken to produce this carpet: 139 days

Additional information: These carpets are produced in villages and in small workshops.

This hand-woven carpet is one of the types of persian hand-woven carpets. These carpets are classified in the category of rural carpets. This hand-woven carpet is woven in Malair . Malair is one of the central regions of Iran and has a high diversity in the texture of handwoven carpets. Each village in this region produces carpets with its own style and design. In some of these villages, carpets are woven that are very similar to the carpets of the central province of Iran, and in some villages of this region, the woven carpets are very similar to the carpets of Kurdish regions and Caucasian designs.

In most cases, the warp and weft of the Malair carpet is entirely cotton and the pile is wool, and it is basically woven with a thick weft.

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