Bakshaish Rugs And Carpets

Bakhshaish is one of the first areas in the mount sabalan persian azerbaijan area to begin production of carpet size.

Bakshaish rugs and carpets.

Bakshaish carpets and rugs. Bakshaish carpets were the product of the persian home craft usually woven in room size or oversize formats on a loom attached to the outside wall of the weaver s home. Sotheby s has attributed two carpets to 1800. Whether called antique persian carpets or rugs silk persians heriz persians antique oriental or antique european carpets the most prized floor weavings in the world go by a variety of similar names.

Which pre date the next oldest by 75 years. Sotheby s bakshaish rug circa 1800 lot 106 and sotheby s bakshaish carpet c. Area size bakshaish rugs normally 4ft 6in x 6ft 6in and sometimes as small as 2ft x 4ft are only occasionally seen the best of which are highly prized by serious collectors. Bakshaish rugs and carpets are a type of tapestry found in north west iran.

2 taking their inspiration from persian classical carpets the abstract patterns of bakshaish rugs and carpets feature bold geometric designs. Collection of antique persian bakshaish rugs. View our entire collection of antique heriz serapi and bakshaish rugs bakshaish rugs among the oversized rugs made in persia bakshaish bakhshaish or bakhshaysh carpets are in a class by themselves. Bakshaish heris county is a town on the banks of the aji chay in the heris region.

Extremely seldom seen in this style are sizes. In essence bakshaish rugs adapt the style and feeling of the finest smaller village or tribal rugs to the the scale of room size pieces. Bakshaish rugs adapt the style and sensibility of the most valued smaller tribal carpets from northern iran 1 bakshaish rugs are considered among the finest examples of larger rugs from the region. Situated in the mountainous region 60 miles east of the large city of tabriz bakshaish is the oldest rug weaving village in the district noted for carpets with diverse abstract adaptations of age old tribal and classical persian motifs.