Bahktiari Rugs: Shahr Kurd Bakhtiari Panel Carpet

Bahktiari Rugs: Shahr Kurd Bakhtiari Panel Carpet

Bakhtiari Panel Carpet are really similar rugs from a region. They never really were woven in great numbers by Bakhtiari tribes people but rather they were woven in areas controlled by the Bakhtiari. Without making this a Iranian history lesson the British armed the Bakhtiari and used them as a mercenary army to lend support to the British Oil interests. Consequently they were in effect a country within a country and these rugs are from the region they controlled.

This rug is a Persian Kurd from the Chahar Mahal. Good color, good dyes. This is a well made village rug. It is not the finest or most valuable of the Bahktiari Panel Carpet but is is a good solid village rug that will give years of service.

Structure: Symmetrical knot. 6 knots per horizontal inch and 7 knots per vertical inch. 42 per square inch (651 per square decimeter)

Yarn Spin: Z.

Warp: Cotton, white.

Weft: Cotton 1 shot. blue, one very thick and the other sinuous.

Pile: 2 Wool singles.

Ends: warp fringe.

Selvages: 2 cotton overcast with red wool.

Further Notes: Very stiff meaty handle, very substantial rug in As new condition. Long pile.