Vagireh (sampler) واگیره

A vagireh is a knotted sampler showing a section of a rug's field and border, woven to a cartoon and then used as the model for full-size rugs. It shows how the chosen colours and drawing will look once knotted, and it outlasts a paper cartoon. Vagirehs are recorded in late nineteenth and early twentieth century production; one view holds that Western exporters introduced them, though they may be older.

Also wagireh · vaghireh · vageereh · rug sampler · carpet sampler · Ornak

See also Cartoon, Field, Border, Loom

Last reviewed November 2026