Rozi Rahmanan

A knot is the unit a hand knotted rug is made of. The weaver ties a short length of yarn around the warp threads, row after row, and the cut ends of those knots become […]

A rug’s foundation is the grid of threads the rug is built on: the vertical warps that run the length of the loom and the horizontal wefts that cross them. Everything else, the knots, the

An antique Kurdish rug is a hand knotted wool carpet woven at least a hundred years ago by Kurdish tribal and village weavers, principally in the highlands of northwest and western Persia, and recognizable by

An antique Sultanabad is a hand knotted Persian carpet from the district around the town of Sultanabad, now Arak, woven mostly between the 1880s and the 1920s and recognizable by its large scale, softly drawn

An antique 10×14 rug is a hand-knotted carpet measuring roughly ten feet by fourteen feet and woven at least 100 years ago. It is the largest of the three common room sizes and by far

An antique 8×10 rug is a hand-knotted carpet measuring roughly eight feet by ten feet and woven at least 100 years ago. It is the most widely bought room size, and for antiques it is

An antique 9×12 rug is a hand-knotted carpet measuring roughly nine feet by twelve feet and woven at least 100 years ago. It is the size most people mean by a room size carpet: large

An antique American hooked rug is a floor textile made by pulling loops of wool yarn or narrow strips of cloth up through a woven backing with a hand hook, rather than by knotting or

An antique Kerman rug is a hand-knotted carpet woven in or near the city of Kerman in southeast Iran at least 100 years ago, recognizable by its finely drawn floral design, its soft pastel palette

Antique, vintage, or new is the first question worth settling about any rug, because it drives everything else: price, care, how the rug will wear, and whether it belongs under a dining table or on

Learning how to identify an antique Persian rug takes five minutes and the back of the rug. A genuine antique Persian rug is a hand-knotted carpet woven in Persia, modern Iran, at least 100 years

An antique Peking rug is a Chinese carpet woven in and around Beijing, then called Peking, mainly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With its calm blue-and-ivory palette, medallion-and-corner layout, and symbolic motifs,