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Persian rugs may be classified into Persian City Rugs and Persian Tribal Rugs. Every sort inside these two is usually named after the city or tribal name in which it really is manufactured and designed. These are some of the most well-known Persian rugs (the first 4 fall below Persian City Rugs):
Afshar Rugs: They are smaller rugs usually designed with geometric pattern. Several connected medallions in diamond shape, All-over gul farangi (roses), botehs, and chicken-like motifs (Afshar-e-Morghi) will be the frequent designs. Colors variety from dark red, reddish brown, brown, dark reddish-blue, dark blue, burnt orange, ocher, and camel. The foundation is often wool, but cotton foundation might also be used in some rugs.
Tabriz Rugs: Most of the designs are curvilinear though geometric are also discovered. The symmetric (Turkish) knot is typical with several colors employed in 1 rug, and really diverse in palette. The typical background and border colors used within this design and style are pink, peach, camel, beige, and ivory. The general appear of Tabriz rugs is pastel. Motifs might come in an assortment of colors such as blue, green, yellow, orange, and lavender. The foundation is generally silk and wool pile with silk highlights.
Kashan Rugs: About 95% in the Kashan rugs pattern is curvilinear. An elongated diamond-shaped and lobed medallion with floral pendants is really a well-liked conventional design and style. This design generally includes a navy medallion with similar corners and border inside a red background or vise versa. Vase, hunting and pictorial are also well-liked. The common background Kashan rug colors are navy, wealthy red, beige and ivory. Other colors such as red, blue, turquoise, ocher, beige, white, brown and occasionally green are used for the styles.
Kerman Rugs: These are also mainly curvilinear in pattern. They may be renowned for Kerman pictorials which fall below the pictorial category of pattern. Traditional Kerman styles include all-over floral, boteh, stripes, paneled garden, prayer, vase, garden, hunting, animal, and pictorials utilizing each Persian and European themes and so on. Contemporary versions consist of Aubussons or Koran (Quran) medallion-and-corners with an open field. Wealthy red, red-blue, lime green, pink, ivory, gray-blue, turquoise, orange, champagne and beige are some of the colors typically used.
Baluch Rugs: These rugs are hand-woven by the nomadic folks in the Baluch tribe in southern Iran, following an ancient Persian tradition, dating back to 2500 years. The design and style is special with an all round pattern, with rich burgundy with some navy and ivory as the principal colors.
Shiraz Rugs: Hand-woven rugs made in Shiraz, Central Iran, merely done with crudely done using the pile cut long with plain colour schemes. Geometric motifs, small animals or plants are commonly utilized within the styles with selvages carried out having a barber-pole effect utilizing two colors. Red will be the primary color used.
Wiss Rugs: These tribal handcrafted rugs come from the village of Wiss, near Hamedan in Iran. Traditional dense floral patterns with vases, foliage, palmettes, and garden components are typically employed. Dark shade of red or burgundy will be the main color. Wiss rugs are known for the resemblance to Arak and Tabriz styles.
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