Antique Persian Bidjar with an overall Mina Khani Trellis design vintage navajo jewelry

Antique Persian Bidjar with an overall Mina Khani Trellis design vintage navajo jewelryA wonderful example of a chunky and thick antique Persian village rug, c. a. 1880 1910 from what is now the N. W. Persian city of Bijar in Persian Kurdistan. Known as "The Iron Rug" contemporary Bijar rugs have wool pile on a cotton foundation while the older ones like this example have a wool pile on a wool foundation. The resulting sensation or "handle" is rich and velvety. The patina and saturated colours on this rug are magnificent and all dyes

Archaeologists have dated slag from iron smelting furnaces to 300 B

The patina and saturated colours on this rug are magnificent and all dyes are rich and deep natural dyes

Age: Circa 1940’s

even venerated among the weavers and ourselves

“When the mask is worn

Local people fed them as they recognized their bowls and by this act acknowledged the monks piety

allowed me to share a wealth of design and technical knowledge

​Source:mexicanmuseum

The energy and movement energizes the written internal mantras and these thousands of prayers and blessings spin out the wheel to be released into the Cosmos & Universe

Seat:15” x 15”

Solid neutral bands of colour are interspersed with rows of highly visual serrated half diamond panels in a classic blanket design format

Villagers at the time had to protect themselves from the animals that would pass by their town and try to threaten to eat their food supply