A mid-19th-century Persian Kurdish kellegi runner The piece measures approximately 107 × 320 cm (3’6″ × 10’6″), a long room-runner proportion suited to galleries, hallways, and the long edges of bedrooms.
The Kurdish weaving regions of west Persia (now Iran) — Bijar, Senneh, Sehna, the wider Kurdistan and Hamadan provinces — are home to some of the most distinctive village and tribal hand-knotted wool carpets in the Persian tradition, particularly valued for natural color saturation and durable hand-spun wool yarns. Mid-19th-century pieces are now well over 160 years old. Symmetric knots.
Hand-knotted wool. Authentic one-of-a-kind antique.
At a glance
· Origin: Persia (Iran), Kurdish weaving regions · Period: Mid 19th century · Construction: Hand-knotted wool · Dimensions: ~107 × 320 cm (≈3’6″ × 10’6″) · Format: runner, rectangularSKU: 19284
Condition: Good.