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New handmade oversize rug No. 56964 Loribaft Iran 550 x 383 cm

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Item Number: 56964
Name: Loribaft
Country of Origin: Iran
Size: 550 x 383 cm
Age: new
Pile: wool
Design: geometric / allover
Ground Color: ivory
Knots per sqm: 350,000
Remarks:
This is a unique handmade / hand-knotted / traditional oriental carpet

The pile of this carpet is made of wool

Hand spun and vegetable dyed wool

This carpet has a total of approximately 7,374,500 knots and it took skilled carpet makers about 9,833 hours or 1,093 working days to hand-knot this carpet.
Price (incl. VAT): £ 16,000

Estimated delivery time:
4 - 8 working days

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More about the provenance Loribaft | Iran

The "Lori" are an Indo-Iranian nomadic people from the mountain region of South West Persia. They are related to the tribe of the Bakhtiari. "Loribaft" rugs are a modern further development of the very popular Gabbeh provenance of rugs. Loribaft are a finer production of Gabbeh rugs both in terms of weaving as well as the designs (also going towards more modern design trends). There are no Lori silk rugs, they are merely made of wool pile and mostly on cotton foundation, older pieces can be found to be made on wool foundation. The Turkish knot is used in the weaving.

The wool of this rug has been dyed with vegetable dyes only which became very rare in Oriental rugs. Since ca. 1850 synthetic dyes found their way into carpet production. Ever since they replaced natural vegetable dyes more and more also due to the fact that the production of vegetable dyes is very time consuming and difficult. But the "aura of genuineness" can be reached to its full extent with vegetable dyes only. Vegetable dyes are made from leaves, flowers, branches, fruits and roots. They give Oriental rugs a particularly harmonic look. In general Oriental rugs "age" better and more beautifully with vegetable dyes than with synthetic dyes plus they increase a carpet's value. Most of today's production is made with synthetic dyes which makes this rug an even more desirable piece. Unfortunately many rugs in the market are being labelled as being vegetable dyed which in many colors is simply not true which damages the reputation of the carpet industry altogether.



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