Diamond-Pattern Vintage Persian Gabbeh Rug, Country of Origin: Persia, Circa Date: Vintage –Â A column of large diamonds climbs the centre of the field. One is a hot orange, one in near-black aubergine, a third in dusty purple. They sit against a camel ground that shifts through rust and rose in broad horizontal bands. Small figures in red and dark brown scatter around them, several no more than a few knots wide.
That banded movement in the ground is abrash, and here it carries the rug: the field keeps shifting even where the pattern holds still. The drawing is loose and unmeasured in the way tribal rug weaving tends to be. They are plotted by eye at the loom rather than set out in advance.
It measures 3 ft 7 in by 5 ft 4 in. This accent size suits a hallway, study, or a spot beside a bed where the diamonds can be seen whole. See the rug size guide for placement at this scale. Larger pieces in a comparable palette can be woven to order as a custom rug.
