FAQ

The names of Persian rugs are titles given to various types of rugs originating from Iran, formerly known as Persia. These names often reflect the region, city, or tribe where the rug was woven, as well as specific design characteristics or historical significance.

Identifying a Persian rug by its name involves recognizing the unique characteristics associated with that name, such as distinctive patterns, colors, and weaving techniques. Additionally, consulting with rug experts or referring to reputable sources can help in accurately identifying Persian rugs.

Each region and country has its specific patterns and motifs for carpets, as Turkish rugs have their designs and also Persian carpets. To identify the Persian rugs, explore all of the traditional styles we gathered in Percarin. Also, make sure that a rug hasn't sewn warp on its fringes. To ensure that your rug is Persian try to buy from Iran local manufacturers!

There are several miscellaneous patterns and motifs in Persian carpets that belong to specific regions of carpet weaving. Most town workshops have curvilinear motifs and patterns, while rustic and nomadic carpets contain geometric and figural motifs. some frequent patterns and motifs are called the medallion, Shah Abbasi, Mahi, or Herati.

For identifying your Persian rug style, check out all the traditional styles of Persian carpets we collect! If your rug has curvilinear motifs it is woven in a town workshop such as Isfahan, Tabriz, or Kerman. Most rugs with geometric and figural motifs belong to villages and tribes.

Though there are many diverse patterns and motifs in Persian carpets, some of them are more common such as Shah Abbasi flowers, arabesque patterns, tree of life and vases in town carpets, and abstract forms of birds and plants and geometric shapes in rustic and tribal carpets. Also, there are specific compositions of patterns and motifs like medallion with corners, Moharamat (which has divided main background with parallel horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines), Khesti ( group of equal squares or lozenges near each other), and Mihrabi that has a dome shape in the main background.

You can compare town carpets and rustic/nomadic carpets with two factors: pattern and density. Carpets that have more than 300 knots per square inch are woven in town workshops while rugs with lower densities are rustic or nomadic (rustic rugs have even more density than nomadic rugs). Also carpets with curvilinear and delicate patterns related to town workshops while most geometrical and broken lines patterns relate to rustic and nomadic styles.

A traditional Persian carpet consists of designs and patterns that are preserved in a special region for years and signify the feature of each regions' carpets while a classic-style rug has been influenced by traditional patterns and motifs in its design.