Colorful Vintage Persian Gabbeh Checkerboard Rug, Country of Origin: Persia, Circa Date: Vintage – Square tiles are held inside a narrow central panel rather than running to the edges. The squares make up a total of seven columns, all in varying colors and separated by dark brown lines. The panel is not consistent throughout the design. Instead, it narrows, bulges and leans as it climbs, so the columns lean with it.
Around that unsteady center, the weaver created an unusually wide frame consisting of boldly colored alternating sawtooth bands. Nearly a third of the rug is border. Containing a geometric field this way is uncommon in tribal rug work, where the pattern usually runs edge to edge.
At 3 ft 9 in by 6 ft 8 in it is long and narrow, one of the small rugs and well suited to a corridor. The design can be woven at other dimensions as a custom rug.
