Antique Kurdish Rug 45162

Antique Kurdish Rug, Persia, 1900s - In the tribal style, this antique Kurdish rug features a highly decorative background punctuated with ancient symbolic motifs, including geometric animals, stars used to symbolize happiness, and several checkerboard patterns used for protection against the forces of the evil eye. Minor borders decorated with S-hooks set inside lozenge cartouches support the primary borders, which are decorated with colorful ram's horn motifs embellished with secondary protection symbols. This antique Kurdish rug woven in the 1900s features an endless variety of ancient protection symbols rendered in a relatively limited color scheme that includes a subdued combination of crimson, steely blue, ivory and camel brown.