A Bidjar carpet, of Garrus design

A Bidjar carpet, of Garrus design, the blue field decorated throughout with stylised foliate branches and flowers in an asymmetric design, within an ochre border decorated with flowerheads issuing palmettes, within floral decorated blue guard stripes, approximately 638 x 373cm

The design originates with the weavers of Kirman in the 17th century who designed a series of carpets with fields covered with interlocking arabesques enclosing floral sprays. In common with other Kirman designs, a close variant on this design began to be woven in north west Persia in the 18th century. By the 19th century it was so well associated with the north west that it was given the name Garrus, a small weaving centre near to Bijar, although it was not exclusively woven there. One of the best known carpets from this group, inscribed as being the work of Garrus and dated 1794, was formerly in the McMullan Collection, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (M. S. Dimand and Jean Mailey, Oriental Rugs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973, fig.120, p.87). The rich colours and elegant design lent itself to the demands of the European interior particularly in the second half of the 19th century, and as a result many examples are found in country houses in Britain and western Europe.

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Condition Report:
Wear commensurate with age and use, there are additional areas of wear throughout where is there no pile or close to no pile remaining. Various old repairs and replaced sections throughout of varying size, see images. Some replacements are very obvious in specific areas/ shapes. Little or no fringing remains to the shorter ends, there are losses to all of the edges and in some cases encroaching upon the adjacent borders. There is an apparent repaired cut in one place from each of the longer sides, up to 30-50cm. There are some other apparent shorter cuts that are repaired (see images) Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition.