Many Mahal carpets, such as this one, have all-over scrolling vines and large palmettos designs. A pattern influenced by the Shah Abbas period carpets and often even called so. This rug has a rust colored field with a symmetrical floral and geometric pattern. Other colors are light and dark blue, camel, ivory, sage green and salmon. It has a wide dark blue border with stylized floral designs flanked by two thinner borders on either side. The borders immediately next to the central wide border appear to be identical. This rug measures apprx. 10'10" x 7'10".
Mahal (Mahallat) rugs and carpets have an interesting characteristic. One can find both tribal and curvature patterns. This attribute comes from unique position of the city of Mahallat. Mahallat is between the cities of Arak and Delijan as well as the path of tribal people of south of Iran.
1,800/2,200
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