Number SOLD
Material Wool
Style All Over
Type Vagireh
Origin Bijar
Size 249 x 153
Age 1890
This weaving one of those things you won't see the likes of again. I quite like it both as an art historian and as a dealer. It is an attractive anomaly to both carpets and samplers in the sense that it looks like a carpet at first sight with a uniform border running all around it but on closer inspection it is clear that it is a vagireh with three different field designs. They are all documented on Bijar carpets and are separated by narrow bands. The pardeh size is very rare to find on samplers. Condition is perfect with full pile. The sky blue border is rather fetching.
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