Gabbeh | 139 x 78 cm | Nr. Z-1504

340,00 €

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Gabbeh

There is only one rug like this one in light red: it combines traditional craftsmanship with timeless elegance. With approx. 90,000 knots per m² the workmanship is correspondingly elaborate, as you can see in the precise drawing of the design and the finely worked details. Its 139 × 78 cm make it a hallway runner. It shows to equally good effect in the kitchen in front of the worktop. Colouring and texture lend the room a homely atmosphere – with a character no second rug shares.

Delivery time	2 days
Origin	Persia
Dimensions	139 cm x 78 cm (= 1.08 m²)
Construction	hand-knotted
Material	Pile: wool Weft & Warp: wool
knots	90.000
Year of manufacture	1980
Condition	pre-owned, cleaned & partially restored
Edition	one-of-a-kind piece

Origin

Gabbeh rugs are knotted by nomads living in the province of Fars, near the city of Shiraz. In Persian, Gabbeh is the name for high-pile rugs that were slept on. Classic Gabbeh have inventive, naive geometric patterns and are full of colour. Modern Gabbeh today mostly come in plain and monochrome designs. Even now, though, the rugs also carry stylised patterns from everyday nomadic life, such as goats, camels, dogs, plants or people. Gabbeh rugs usually come in natural cream, brown and grey tones, but you can also find lively yellow, red or blue.

Material

Gabbehs are knotted by hand from hand-spun wool and dyed with natural colours. The hand-spun wool gives the rugs a grainy yet soft surface. Traditionally, Gabbeh rugs were used for sleeping. They invite you to sit and lounge about in the living room, but they are also excellent in hallways and dining areas.

Hand-spun wool is always a little irregular. When it is dyed, the natural dyes are absorbed to differing degrees. This makes the rug look more alive, producing what are known as colour shifts (abrash), that is, light-and-dark shadings. These changes in the tone of the pile yarn always run across the length of the Gabbeh and make the rug forgiving when it comes to dirt.

The foundation (weft and warp threads) of this Gabbeh is made of new wool.

Condition

This Gabbeh has had admirers before you. It was knotted around 1980. It has been cleaned thoroughly and is in good but only partly restored condition. The edges are damaged in places. We have not fully restored this Gabbeh, because we feel it has a particular charm exactly as it is. If you would prefer otherwise, we will of course gladly carry the restoration further for you. We can bring almost any rug back to near-perfect condition.

A note on the photos

The colours of this rug change depending on which side you look at it from. It all depends on whether the light falls with the nap of the pile or against it. That is why we have photographed the rug from several angles.

Child labour? No thanks.

Child labour? No thanks. Children belong in school, not at a knotting frame or a loom. For us it therefore goes without saying that we only offer rugs made under fair conditions and without child labour.

We attach particular importance to humane working conditions and tolerate no child labour at any of our producers. Thank you for helping us to ensure fair conditions.

That is why we support the initiative Care & Fair against child labour in the rug trade.