Persian Gabbeh Rugs

Gabbeh rugs are available in two varieties persian and indian and are very popular for use in the home.

Persian gabbeh rugs.

Their design is a great example of how simplicity is beautiful. Gabbeh rugs are distinctive and relatively easy to recognize thus making them good examples for our oriental rugs by design study. We have a huge collection of gabbeh and other handmade persian rugs for sale. Hand knotted gabbeh rugs with tribal and minimal designs.

The advent of persian gabbeh rugs gah bay from iran into the western market is relatively new even though the earliest of these rugs were being woven in persia as early as the 1500s. It combines thick heavy pile with bold colors and shapes in unusual and exciting combinations. Hand crafted by nomadic tribes using old world techniques to create area rugs that will last forever. Tulus are turkish equivalent to gabbehs usually woven with long mohair pile.

We specialize in the importation of persian rugs from around the world. The gabbeh is a very unique hand woven tribal persian rug made by nomadic people in southern iran. Gabbeh rugs are one of the warmest and most creative types of oriental rugs. Persian gabbeh rugs gallery.

These designs are usually kept very basic with geometric motifs or symbolic shapes. Some gabbeh rugs are known to have large open fields and most of them have just a few color combinations. The berber tribes in the atlas mountains of morocco also produce a type of rug that is similar in structure and spirit to the gabbeh. Gabbeh carpets are woven on makeshift ground looms constructed both of materials that are kept and hauled for long distances by the nomadic tribal and also of materials that are found at each site where the tribe sets up camp.

Gabbehs are southwest persian rugs that were originally used as sleeping rugs. گبه carpets are a traditional variety of persian carpet gabbeh is known as gava in kurdish and luri and is also called khersak خرسک in bakhtiari literally meaning a bear s cub traditionally a sleeping rug a gabbeh is a hand woven pile rug of coarse quality and medium size 90 x 150 cm 3 by 5 ft or larger characterized by an abstract design that. Fifty years ago most rug enthusiasts had not even heard of them. The word gabbeh literally translates to in the rough and it is an accurate description of this style of persian rug.

Gabbeh or gabba persian.