Antique Halvai Bijar Persian Rug, Herati Design, Early 20th Century
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ABOUT THIS PIECE
Bijar carpets are known as the iron rugs of Persia, yet the Halvai family wove the celebrated exception: finer in the knot, supple in the hand, and prized above standard Bijar production ever since. This room-size example carries the great Herati design across a stepped terracotta diamond with navy spandrels and a soft celadon medallion. The drawing has the living irregularity of a weaver working from memory, which is the early mode, before printed cartoons standardised the repeat.
Our dye analysis documented the full natural palette, including pronounced madder abrash banding across the field, layered indigo blues and a compound green of indigo over botanical yellow, all of which supports a dating in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The carpet is densely woven at approximately 400,000 knots per square metre with full, even pile throughout. It offers what antique Bijars are treasured for, a carpet built to be lived on for another century, in the suppler and rarer Halvai grade.
Specs: Origin: Bijar, Gerus region, Persian Kurdistan. Attribution: Halvai grade. Design: Herati with stepped medallion. Age: first quarter 20th century. Structure: wool pile on cotton, natural dyes, approx. 400,000 knots per square metre. Size: 280 x 220 cm.
SPECIFICATIONS
How it sits in your room.
278 × 205 CM (9'1" × 6'9"), DRAWN TO SCALE WITH TYPICAL AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE SIZES.
A 2-seater sofa along the long side with its front legs on the rug and 54 cm of rug past each arm, a coffee table on the rug. It is not deep enough for armchairs opposite as well.
A 120 × 80 cm table with 63 cm of rug beyond its sides and 79 cm past its ends, so the chairs stay on the rug when they are pulled out.
Under the lower part of a king bed with 48 cm of rug showing on each side, so your feet land on it either side of the bed.
Measure the room, or just the area the rug should cover, and we will draw this rug in it to scale.
