Gabbeh rugs are a traditional variety of persian rugs. Gabbeh is known as khersak in Bakhtiari, literally meaning a "bear's cub". Traditionally a sleeping rug, a gabbeh is a hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality and medium size (90 x 150 cm, 3 by 5 ft, or larger) characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of colour and a playfulness with geometry. This type of rug is popular among the inhabitants of the Zagros Mountains of Iran, including the Qashqai people.The gabbeh rug is usually woven by women.
HANDMADE RUG - SHIRAZ rugs are of good quality and have excellent visibility. They are durable and are great for places that people walk often. These rugs and carpets are much stronger than city rugs. It has a very warm look, resulting in rich and beautiful look, warm underfoot and velvety feel.
HANDMADE RUG - SHIRAZ rugs are of good quality and have excellent visibility. They are durable and are great for places that people walk often. These rugs and carpets are much stronger than city rugs. It has a very warm look, resulting in rich and beautiful look, warm underfoot and velvety feel.
HANDMADE RUG - It has extremely simple pattern and all have geometric pattern. Some newer GABBEH have more details such as birds, and human in the pattern. The quality of GABBEH is excellent and they are among the most gorgeous carpets, resulting , warm underfoot and velvety feel.
HANDMADE RUG - SHIRAZ rugs are of good quality and have excellent visibility. They are durable and are great for places that people walk often. These rugs and carpets are much stronger than city rugs. It has a very warm look, resulting in rich and beautiful look, warm underfoot and velvety feel.
HANDMADE RUG - It has extremely simple pattern and all have geometric pattern. Some newer GABBEH have more details such as birds, and human in the pattern. The quality of GABBEH is excellent and they are among the most gorgeous carpets, resulting in rich and beautiful look, warm underfoot and velvety feel.
HANDMADE RUG - SHIRAZ rugs are of good quality and have excellent visibility. They are durable and are great for places that people walk often. These rugs and carpets are much stronger than city rugs. It has a very warm look, resulting in rich and beautiful look, warm underfoot and velvety feel.
HANDMADE RUG - Gabbeh carpets, sometimes spelled 'Gabbe' are a traditional variety of Persian carpet. Gabbeh is pronounced as gava in Kurdish and Luri and is also called Khersak in Bakhtiari. A Gabbeh a hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality and medium size (90 x 150 cm or larger) characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of color and a playfulness with geometry. This type of rug is popular among tribes of the Zagros Mountains of Iran, including Kurdish, Luri and Qashqai tribes. The Gabbeh is usually crafted by women. Free delivery on this rug in UK mainland.
HANDMADE RUG - SHIRAZ rugs are of good quality and have excellent visibility. They are durable and are great for places that people walk often. These rugs and carpets are much stronger than city rugs. It has a very warm look, resulting in rich and beautiful look, warm underfoot and velvety feel.
Gabbeh carpets are much thicker and coarser than other Persian carpets; sometimes they can be as much as one inch or 2.5 cm in depth. In fact, they are more a variety of kilim than rugs. The word "gabbeh" comes from the Persian ,ﮔﺒﻪ meaning raw, natural, uncut. This is a rough and primitive carpet, woven by the resilient mountain inhabitants of iran, thus their lifestyle reflects the rugs they weave; strong and resilient. Persian gabbeh rugs patterns are of a very basic kind with only a limited number of decorative, mostly rectangular objects resembling mainly animals. In gabbeh usually bright colors, such as yellow and red, are used. Although large fields of solid color are used in gabbeh rugs designs, the color is variegated (the colour varies throughout the rug, with the appearance of differently colored zones).Persian gabbeh rugs are made of natural, handspun wool yarn and all the colors are created with natural plant dye. Due to its relative ease of production (less precise pattern, small number of knots per square centimeter, etc.) a gabbeh rug is one of the less expensive varieties of Persian rugs. In the 1980s, after an Iranian artist had experimented with vegetable dyed gabbehs, he began producing the rugs in larger quantities, employing Qashgayi and Luri weavers. Increased production of gabbeh rugs for sale by the Zollanvari family, including their introduction of new patterns, exerted considerable influence on European rug markets.
