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To understand Hamadan Rugs you need to understand that there are 1500 villages that produce Hamadans and each village averages two distinct types. With 3000 to choose from it is hard to pick a typical Hamadan on the other hand they are as a group one of the easiest rugs from Persia/Iran to identify.
The key to identifying a a Hamadan is that as a group they comprise the largest single block of single wefted Persian rugs. There are a few single wefted rugs such as Antique Sennahs, Lilihans, and a few others but if you see a single wefted rug from Iran it is more likely to be Hamadan than anything else.
| Hamadan Rugs. Structure: Symmetrical knot. 40 to 120 Knots per square inch (1163 per square decimeter) Not depressed. Yarn Spin: Z. Warp: Cotton, white. Weft: Cotton 1 shot. Wool only in the oldest ones. Pile: 2 Wool singles. Ends: Warp fringe. Selvages: overcast with wool. Further Notes: Hamadans are known for sturdy construction and very good wool. |
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One interesting sub-group are the carpets of the Borchalu. The Borchalu are the descendents of Mongols who settled in the area southeast of Hamadan. These are a single wefted colorful rugs and carpets. In P. R. J. Ford's book Oriental Carpet Design Ford mentioned that the Borchalu were Mongol. That peaked my curiosity. If they are Mongol than I should be able to identify them since Mongols are well documented. Here is what I found: In about 1179 a young man who would grow up to be Cinggis Qahan (Ghengis Khan) was aided by the son of the Chieftain of the Arulat clan. The young man was Bo'orcu. He became one of Cinggis Qahan's Dorben Kulu'ud (Great Warriors). In the Yuan ch'ao pi-shih, quatrain 205, it is recorded that later in life Cinggis Qahan said "Let Bo'orcu govern the ten thousand of the right hand which take the Altai as pillow." In other words the Qahan gave a proto-tribal unit to a key general. I am certainly no linguist but I translate Borchalu as Bo'orcu Lu or the people of Bo'orcu. The Lu of Bo'orculu as coming from the same root as the Mongol term Ulus which means the land, animals, and people, that a that an IL or tribal group controls. These people became known as the Bo'orculu or people of Bo'orcu. Over the years Bo'orculu becomes Borchalu. So if Ford's is correct and I believe he is that the Borchalu are Mongol than they must be descended from the Horde of Bo'orcu. Similar Rugs:
Who then uses single wefts with a symmetrical knot with a low knot count?
What other Persian rugs are single wefted and symetrically knotted?
Related examples:
Books & Articles - Sources on Kashan Rugs:
Hamadan Links:
No set of rules is absolute. I am building these guides as an attribution guide to help when I am working with rugs. Copyright
Barry O'Connell 2004 - 2006.
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