Mir Serabend Persian Carpet
Dimensions | 7'4" × 10'6
Origin | Iran
Type | Hand-Knotted / Double-Wefted
Pile Material | Wool
Foundation Material | Cotton
Condition: Excellent - Soft, thick and even wool pile on a cotton foundation. No signs of wear.
About Serabend and Mir-Serabend
Serband lies in Iran, between Arak and Borujird, at about 2,000 M altitude. The name "Serabend" may mean, "a cold place",
but there is also a river nearby named Sarvand, which could also be the source of the name. For several centuries, and
clearly at least the past couple of centuries, rugs and carpets of with overall Boteh designs, have been made there.
Serabend rugs are one of the few industries of Persian rugs manufactured with a predominantly dominant Boteh design,
usually filling the field of the rug/carpet. Boteh designs, epecially those with large areas of boteh, are not
known much before 1800. Seraband rugs and carpets are "fairly course, rustic, rectilinear, with elegant colors
(especially a red ground, but also blue and cream)" PRJ Ford, Oriental Carpet Design, p 55. They are made with an overall Boteh
pattern, but the rows alternate the direction that the Botehs face, and a diamond-shaped medallion is sometimes found.
Most carpet sizes are made. The Turkish knot is the usual knot.
Everu, near Hamadan, is another carpet/rug area known for the Boteh design, but the Boteh are oriented in the
same direction, and they have a different border from the Serabend. These are also single-wefted, and have a less fine
weave than the Serabend, which is double-wefted. Thus, the Everu Boteh design rugs can be easily distinguished from the
Serabend. Most of the Everu designs are of the Herati design. Qum is another rug area that uses the overall Boteh
designs, and in which, like the Everu, the Boteh rows are oriented in the same direction.
The Serabend designs have been appropriated by Indian weavers, and over the years, these have been developed beyond the
Iranian Serabend designs, with more designs, and almost any imaginable color and size. - written by William E. Clymer III.
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SKU: 186
$1,280.00 Regular Price
$500.00Sale Price
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