350.00 €
This Persian Gabbeh rug is handwoven from undyed natural wool in a beautiful palette of soft greys, warm beiges, and creamy ivory tones. Rather than blending the different colours evenly, the weaver carefully sorted the wool into separate batches, creating a distinctive speckled effect known in Iran as namak o felfel—literally “salt and pepper.”
The result is a wonderfully textured surface with subtle depth and movement, celebrating the natural beauty of the wool. Soft, authentic, and timeless, this Gabbeh is a perfect example of the artistry found in traditional Persian tribal weaving.
Material: 100% hand-spun sheep wool
Size: 132×82 cms
Origin: Qashqai tribe, Iran
Date of weaving: New
Traditionally a sleeping rug, a gabbeh is a hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of color and a playfulness with geometry. This type of rug is popular among the populations of the Zagros Mountains of Iran, including Kurdish, Luri and Qashqai people.The gabbeh is usually woven by women.
Gabbeh carpets are much thicker and coarser than other Persian carpets; sometimes they can be as much as one inch or 2.5 cm in depth. In fact, they are more a variety of kilim than carpet. The word “gabbeh” comes from the Persian گبه, meaning raw, natural, uncut. This is a rough and primitive carpet.
Gabbeh patterns are of a very basic kind with only a limited number of decorative, mostly rectangular objects, animals and vegetable motives. In a gabbeh usually bright colors, such as yellow and red, are used. Often undyed natural wool is used (brown, beige, black, white etc.). Although large fields of solid color are used in gabbeh designs, the color is variegated (the color varies throughout the rug, with the appearance of differently colored zones).
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REF: A2404026
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| Weight | 6.9 kg |
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