Rugs up to 1,500 €

Rugs up to €1,500 at a glance

• Selection: over 5,000 rugs under €1,500, around 900 of them between €1,000 and €1,500
• Prices: average price in this segment €1,200
• Typical sizes: 2.2 to 5 m²; around 500 pieces reach 6 m² or more – so 200 x 300 cm  and 300 x 250 cm up to 400 x 300 cm.
• Knot density: 120,000 to 250,000 knots per m²
• Most common types: Shiraz, Kazak, Oxiana, Mamlouk
• Possible for the first time: a generous living room rug from around 200 × 300 cm upwards

Which rugs can you get for up to 1,500 euros?

This class is the threshold at which two things
happen at once: the rug becomes room-filling, and it becomes finer. Up to
1,000 euros you are mainly buying surface area, from 1,000 euros fineness comes with it. In
practice that means: more cleanly drawn patterns, crisper outlines on
medallions and borders, a pile that feels denser.

For a living room with a sofa and coffee table you usually
need 200 x 300 cm, so that at least the front legs of the furniture stand on the
rug. That is exactly where this price class draws the line: just under 300
pieces below 1,500 euros reach that size, while well over 700 measure
at least 4 m² and thus fall in the 170 x 240 to 300 x 250 cm range. If your room
is larger, take a look at the class
from 1,500 euros is growing, with 1500 rugs there measuring 6 m² or more.

Typical of this bracket are Shiraz rugs from the south of
Iran, Kazak and Farahan or Ziegler, Kelims and new productions, as well as the first Mamlouk pieces
with their geometric star patterns. All three come with hand-spun
wool and natural dyes – the difference from the class below lies less in the
material than in knot count and the care of the design. Even Zomorrodi's own
modern creations, the Designer
rugs lines New Teheran, Reflection, Terra and Mood, are well within
budget in this price class, depending of course on the size.

An honest word on the subject of investment: a new,
hand-knotted rug in this price class is an everyday object with a
long life, not a financial investment. Any rise in value happens – if
at all – with old and antique pieces, and with very
fine silk rugs pieces, and even there only in very
good condition. What you can count on here: a rug that, with normal
care, lasts for decades and looks better doing it than on day one.

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