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Notes
on Bakshaish Rugs and Carpets
Notes on Serab
and Serapi Rugs and Carpets
Guide to Heriz Silk
Rugs & Carpets
In the 18th - 20th centuries there have
been a constant series of upheavels between Russia and
her Moslem neighbors to the south. Every time Russia and
Turkey fought Moslems moved south and Armenians moved
north. Many of the weavers from the Heriz area are a
result of imagration from what is now Armenia and
Azerbaijan.
The great German rug expert Heinrich Jacoby described
a diference in size pre-1880 and post-1880. In the
pre-1880 period Jacoby suggests that the most common size
was 6 feet 6 inches by 13 feet. This length equals twice
width seems typical in that period before the massive
commercial export period. Long and narrow was in keeping
with the needs of the Persian buyer. After 1880
production shifted to European sizes. Starting with 6
meter rugs (6 feet 7 inches by 9 foot 10 inches) they
were made in sizes typically up to 16 foot 6 inch by 26
feet. Jacoby,
Heinrich. How To Know Oriental Rugs and Carpets
This is not representative of what we see at the major
auctions houses who regularly show carpets in European
sizes back to 1800.
A discussion of Color in Gorevan
Carpets From Heriz
In classic style Gorevan Heriz there
are 3 different color groups and the difference can many
thousand dollars in in similar design carpets.
New Heriz - Even with the new
antique washes color seems a rather hard and they
usually have the bright red, white, and blue of
the American flag. These are generally new, not
very expensive, and in the US virtually all
smuggled.
Older Heriz - Color is mellowed
and the rug should have lost much of it's hard
brashness. Once the color ages and mellows a
Heriz becomes worth more in the marketplace than
a new one.
Antique
Heriz - No harsh colors the reds are now rust
tones and the Heriz takes on a very elegant look.
These rugs cost substantially more but the
marketplace judges that the look justifies the
price. In the United Stated Antique Heriz carpets
with this color are often called Serapi.
Heriz Rug
Heriz proper,and the surrounding area.
Size: medium and large carpets are common.
Structure: Symmetrical knot. 25 to 80
kpsi with up to 100 knots per square inch in rare
cases.
Yarn Spin: Z.
Warp: Cotton
Weft: 2 shots cotton. First shot is thicker and
straight and the second is thinner and sinuous.
Deeply depressed knots with a warp offset of 85
to 90 degrees.
Pile: 2 wool singles.
Ends: Overhand knots with warp fringe.
Selvages: 1 cord plain wool.
Handle: Light - medium.
Further Notes: Heriz and Tabriz carpets have
heavier cotton warps and wefts than most Persian
rugs. |
 Gorevan
Heriz carpet C. 1930-40 W&W lot 182
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Related examples:
New rugs from Heriz Area
Similar Rugs
Books
& Articles - Sources on Kashan Rugs:
Heriz Links:
Iran Accounts for Five Percent of World
Copper Reserves and One Percent of World Copper
Production
The 2.6 billion ton copper reserves of Iran with a purity
of 0.8 percent on the average are located in Sarcheshmeh
and Songun both in Kerman Province and Meiduk near the
city of Ahar in East Azarbaijan Province. The Sarcheshmeh
copper quarry with a total proven reserves of 1.2 billion
tons are among the world's largest copper quarries. The
average purity of copper ore yielded by this quarry is
1.12 percent. The copper quarries of Meiduk in Shahr-e
Babak, Kerman Province have a total proven reserves of
145 million tons. The Songun quarries near the city of
Ahar, East Azarbaijan Province, possess proven reserves
of 660 million tons and probable reserves of 1.5 billion
tons with a purity of 0.7 percent.
(Commercial Review; The Magazine of the
Institute for Commercial Studies & Research (Monthly)
, Jan. 1998, No. 125 Pages: 87-90) http://www.salamiran.org/Magazine/BackIssues/October98/Article.html
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J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
Copyright Barry O'Connell 2004 - 2007.
Last revised: March 22, 2009.
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