Qashqai gabbeh from Iran. 258x191 cms

This Qashqai gabbeh from Iran is woven entirely from undyed natural wool. The weaver carefully selected and sorted the wool by tone, creating the design from irregular squares that bring rhythm and balance to the composition.

The rug is exceptionally thick, with lustrous, dense, and soft wool that provides warmth and a wonderfully comfortable feel underfoot. If you enjoy walking barefoot, this rug is for you!

Material: 100% hand-spun sheep wool

Size: 258×191 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).