Persian Kurdish

Persian KurdishIt is the Kurdish people of the Middle East (primarily from the larger Kurdistan region that includes the Eastern part of Turkey, Iraq, southernmost Caucasus, Soviet Armenia and North Western Iran) that first wove the Kurdish rug. For these nomads, the art of rug making which was the primary means of creative expression was also instructional, helping to teach youngsters the symbolic language of patterns and colours that is the cultural heritage of

medallions and hooked polygons

but materials can be all silk

Made with handspun Ghazni wool

Following WWI

talented nomads wove stunning

comes the Viss or Wiss rug

Sarouk denotes romance

luminous wool shorn from local sheep and dyed with roots and vegetables

with silk details

often present all-over pattern without a central medallion

These carpets are made to last

some have a central medallion that resembles a star or hexagon