Persian Songhor Koliaee

Persian Songhor KoliaeeNomadic tribes in the district of Sirjan (in southern Iran's Fars and Kerman provinces) have a long rug weaving history that includes both Turkish and Kurdish influences. The Sirjan is a handmade Persian tribal rug, with up to 100 symmetrical Turkish knots per square inch. The warp and weft foundation is cotton or goat hair and the thinner pile is of fine, luminous wool shorn from local sheep and dyed with roots and vegetables. Lively and bright, each

The design of Bidjar rugs consist of a medallion in the centre of the rug

but the pattern is almost always one of repeating columns of Turkmen 'gul' or 'fil pai' (elephant prints) in undertones of deep red

A traditional variety of the Persian

Dragons and eagles were prominent

Within these patterns there is a lot of variety

It was the handymen of Iran and Pakistan that managed the Ziggler designs

With styles collected from different parts of Persia and Caucasus

these weavers construct their own horizontal ground looms

a high quality

with a smooth

knotted by nomads from the Qashqai and Luri tribes of southwest Iran and famous for their naive

meaning wood or the dyes found in wood