Antique Tehran Carpets

Iran s famous tehran carpet museum.

Antique tehran carpets.

Woven by expert weavers the variety of pale blues and indigo deeper dyes are stunning. Antique tehran 11ft 8in x 18ft 0in circa 1900. Most high quality tehran rugs pre date 1945. Antique tehran 4ft 7in x 6ft 8in circa 1900.

View some of the most popular rug and carpet styles from our collection. 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. However while traditional rugs have been woven in a variety of styles throughout persia for centuries and centuries tehran itself only became a center of antique rug production after the great revival of persian weaving was underway in the late nineteenth. Antique tehran vase rug 4ft 7in x 7ft 1in 3rd quarter 19th century.

A beautiful rare antique tehran vase carpet with exquisite colours rare greens and pale blues. Antique tehran rugs are not only high quality they are also rare. Antique tehran garden 6ft 4in x 10ft 7in late 19th century. 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.

The tehran carpet museum of iran is one of the world s few museums that specializes only in carpets. 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. A rare near perfect condition antique tehran carpet with beautiful colours and an elegant floral design highlighted by silk.

In the antique persian rug world the mundane becomes the mysterious. The nazmiyal collection has one of the largest selections of vintage and antique rugs in the world. 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. 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.

In the late 1800s the art of persian weaving experienced a revival of popularity and tehran became the locus for persian rug production. 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. Antique tehran rugs set the standard for quality and workmanship.