Kinds of Rugs

Saraband

A Persian rug where the entire field covered with a repeating pattern of palm leaves with rose and blue ground. Mir is the name of village in this district where design had its source.The knotting is symmetrical, on a cotton foundation.

Ispahan herat

coarse pile weaving intricately done on claret ground using turkish knot.

Hamadan

Camel's hair rug with a coarse weave in light brown, reds and blues.

Kerman and Kermanshah

Fine pile in soft cream, rose, light blue and other pastel colors

Sarouk

Fine pile in dark reds & blues mixed with lighter colors

Bijar

It is a type of oriental rug that is as thick as two or three ordinary rugs.

Polonnaise

Delicately colored antique silk rug

Sehna

It is a close woven small oriental rug with minute patterns

Feraghan

It is a type of oriental rug usually produced with a small all-over design of flowers or conventional forms arrayed in rows.

Gabbeh

A hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of color and playfulness with geometry.

Navajo (American Indian)

Colorful hand-woven rugs (Navajo) of wool in the Indian reservations of the southwest. The weave is flat and patterns are primitive geometric patterns, stripes and borders.

Alpujira

Coarse, heavy rugs originally meant as bedspreads, hand-loomed by peasants since the 15th Century.

Arraiolo

Portugese hand-embroidered accent rugs made in either bright or pastel colors.

Aubusson

Named after a French town, made of wool, linen and cotton. Weave resembles needlepoint and usually has a pale cream ground with floral designs and arabesques.

Braided

Hand made rugs by Americans in the late 18th Century, consisting of many fabric scraps and sewn together into colorful round or oval rugs of various sizes.

Dhurrie

A Tibetan carpet of Kelim weave, a flat-woven reversible rug.

Flokati

Shaggy wool area rugs made in Greece, in solid colors as well as natural off white shade.

Kelim (Kilim) (Kelem)

Hand-woven rugs with over-all geometric patterns with a center motif. Very durable.

Moroccan

Hand woven rugs with thick, shaggy pile and fringed edges. Dominant geometric patterns with string contrasting colors like black and rust brown, white or bright orange on red grounds.

Rya

Scandinavian rugs of hand-knotted shaggy weave with alternating short and long pile. In abstract or contemporary peasant designs.

Savonnerie

Hand-woven rug with a high pile, in pastel colors and floral and scroll patterns. Produced in the rug and tapestry factory at the former soap works outside Paris.

Sisal

Grass-like product is twisted together into strands and sewn into squares.

Kazakh

Woven with SHARP reds, blues, and off whites

Bachtiari

Geometric rug. Bright yellows, greens and reds

Boukara

Woven rugs usually in some shade of red and until recently, some in ivory.

Indian

Decorated with motifs of flowers, vines and animals. Characterized by more brilliant colors and more naturalistic style. Associated with the place like Agra, Lahore, Kashmir and Srinagar.

Turkoman

Closely woven with short, firm pile, predominantly red with designs including squares, diamonds, octagons and other simpler angular motifs. It is woven by nomadic tribes of Boukara, Afghanistan, Belouchistan and Turkestan.

Caucasian

Small rugs with contrasting, strong colors woven by nomadic tribes with geometric designs, often incorporating stylized people and animals.

Turkish

Sometimes called Asia-Minor, woven in both geometric and floral designs but with smaller patterns than the Persian or Indian and brighter, sharper colors than the Turkoman and Caucasian.

Chinese

Recognizable by their soft ground colors of yellow, rose, salmon-red, beige and browns with the use of silk dyes. Pattern in one blue color and designs are religious symbols.