Vintage Persian Qashqai Kilim artisan-made with the design using open

with the design using open space as deliberately as it uses pattern

Stock Number: BR1324

A few centuries back

a quartered octagonal medallion repeated in precise rows across the deep red field

Size: 138 x 105 cm | 4'6" x 3'5"

Vintage Persian Qashqai Kilim artisan-made with the design using openThe Qashqai are a nomadic tribe from the Fars Province of southwestern Iran, migrating twice a year across the Zagros Mountains between highland summer pastures and lowland winter grazing grounds. They have a saying: "Where I am is my carpet. Where my carpet and I am is my home." For a people who travelled hundreds of kilometres each year, the kilim wasn't dcor. It was home, carried on their backs between worlds. The kilim is the most nomadic of all