Antique handmade oversize carpet No. 46501 Kashan, ca. 1920 Iran 413 x 316 cm
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| Item Number: |
46501 |
| Name: |
Kashan, ca. 1920 |
| Country of Origin: |
Iran |
| Size: |
413 x 316 cm |
| Made:
|
ca. 1920 |
| Pile: |
wool |
Foundation
(warp and weft): |
cotton |
| Design: |
floral / little medallion |
| Ground Color: |
dark blue / navy |
| Knots per sqm: |
640,000 |
| Remarks: |
This is a unique handmade / hand-knotted / traditional oriental carpet
The pile of this carpet is made of wool
Full pile and perfect condition. This piece has been dyed with vegetable dyes only.
This carpet has a total of approximately 8,352,000 knots and it took skilled carpet makers about 11,136 hours or 1,237 working days to hand-knot this carpet. |
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More about the provenance Kashan, ca. 1920 | Iran
Kashan (also: "Keshan") is located in central Iran at the old Caravan Street which leads from Teheran to Kashan, Qum, Yazd, Kerman, then further to India and Pakistan. The peak glory time of Kashan was under the reign of the Safavids in the 16/17th century. Kashan rugs belong to the best classic Oriental rugs. Kashans are mostly woven with the Persian knot as opposed to the Turkish knot with which most Persian rugs are made.
The wool of this rug has been dyed with vegetable dyes only which became very rare in Oriental rugs. Since ca. 1850 synthetic dyes found their way into carpet production. Ever since they replaced natural vegetable dyes more and more also due to the fact that the production of vegetable dyes is very time consuming and difficult. But the "aura of genuineness" can be reached to its full extent with vegetable dyes only. Vegetable dyes are made from leaves, flowers, branches, fruits and roots. They give Oriental rugs a particularly harmonic look. In general Oriental rugs "age" better and more beautifully with vegetable dyes than with synthetic dyes plus they increase a carpet's value. Most of today's production is made with synthetic dyes which makes this rug an even more desirable piece. Unfortunately many rugs in the market are being labelled as being vegetable dyed which in many colors is simply not true which damages the reputation of the carpet industry altogether.
