Miane Qalami Triple Medallion Persian Runner Rug, Mid 20th Century
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ABOUT THIS PIECE
A vintage Miane Persian runner from north-west Persia, hand-knotted in wool on cotton in the 1950s, with three medallions on an ivory qalami ground.
Three diamond medallions in navy and red sit inside a long panel of ivory pen-stroke stripes, each with a heart of saturated orange. The field around the panel is red, and the main border carries angular motifs in orange, ivory and olive on navy. The qalami is a design more often seen from Sarab, woven here in Miane, the next town along, and its ivory stripes are camel wool, which gives the ground a soft, faintly lustrous surface.
The wool is hand-spun and the knots are tied by hand on a cotton foundation, double-wefted, which gives a firm, flat runner made to take a hallway’s traffic for decades. It is a finer weave than the Sarab runners of the same district.
It was woven alongside a companion piece, a seven-medallion runner, and the two share the same red, the same orange and the same rose-pink wool at their edges. Listed separately, they would sit well together in one long hall or across two.
The pile is full and even across the whole rug, the selvedges and fringes are the ones it was woven with, and it has never needed repair.
At 390 by 105cm it suits a hallway. View it in our Richmond gallery, or explore more Persian runners.
SPECIFICATIONS
How it sits in your room.
390 × 105 CM (12'10" × 3'5"), DRAWN TO SCALE WITH TYPICAL AUSTRALIAN FURNITURE SIZES.
Suits a hallway about 135 to 165 cm wide, leaving 15 to 30 cm of floor showing along each side. It needs about 450 cm of length to leave some floor at both ends.
Measure the room, or just the area the rug should cover, and we will draw this rug in it to scale.
