Vintage Minimalist Gabbeh Rug
N°
00413
Period
circa 1940
Origin
Southern Persia,
Status
Available
Size
183 x 105 cm6'0" x 3'5"
A highly graphic vintage Gabbeh rug, distinguished by red field embellished by a blue central device with a zig-zag profile. Rugs of this type are representative of a woven minimalism which is at the heart of the history of the hand-knotted pile rug since prehistoric times.
Since the ‘fibre revolution’, which began in the Near East with the domestication of sheep at around the fourth millennium BCE, tribal textile art of different cultures has developed from the very essentials of geometric abstraction.