Antique Tehran Carpets

View some of the most popular rug and carpet styles from our collection.

Antique tehran carpets.

Antique tehran 11ft 8in x 18ft 0in circa 1900. An antique tehran carpet woven with a silk foundation and large amount of silk highlights detailing the animals and flowers on a finely spun wool pile. This carpet has beautiful animals in the design and is a remarkable fine weave. Woven by expert weavers the variety of pale blues and indigo deeper dyes are stunning.

The tehran carpet museum of iran is one of the world s few museums that specializes only in carpets. Antique tehran rugs are not only high quality they are also rare. Most high quality tehran rugs pre date 1945. A beautiful rare antique tehran vase carpet with exquisite colours rare greens and pale blues.

Antique tehran vase rug 4ft 7in x 7ft 1in 3rd quarter 19th century. Tehran is the capital of iran the country historically referred to as persia and the greatest carpet producing country in the world. Persian carpets are well known all around the world and this museum offers the rare and exciting opportunity to visit and appreciate them in their country of origin located in tehran next to a beautiful park the museum measures at over 36 000 square feet. Whether called antique persian carpets or rugs silk persians heriz persians antique oriental or antique european carpets the most prized floor weavings in the world go by a variety of similar names.

It is also one of the more comprehensive inventories of both vintage rugs as well as antique carpets that you will find anywhere online or off. This rare and exceptional carpet has beautiful animals in the design and is a remarkably fine weave these carpets were often commissioned for important people and private homes in the late 19th. Iran s famous tehran carpet museum. In the antique persian rug world the mundane becomes the mysterious.

Flowers and geometric figures are imbued with deep symbolism and colors and shape carry deep meaning the term antique persian rugs refers to those rugs that were made in modern day iran making the term antique iranian rugs practically interchangeable. Vase carpets tehran rugs kirman carpets antique carpets this website uses cookies in order to deliver a personalised experience we remember and store information about how you use the website. Antique tehran garden 6ft 4in x 10ft 7in late 19th century. A rare near perfect condition antique tehran carpet with beautiful colours and an elegant floral design highlighted by silk.

Antique tehran rugs set the standard for quality and workmanship. For over 50 years our passion has been to find the rare antique rug or carpet that connotes the true artist sometimes in those pieces that. In the late 1800s the art of persian weaving experienced a revival of popularity and tehran became the locus for persian rug production.