Name/Title
PERSIAN HAMADAN RUG RUNNEREntry/Object ID
98.8.2.2Description
Color: Blue, brown, green, red
A Persian Hamadan rug runner, ca 1920s. The rug has an intricate design of geometric shapes and lines with blues, browns, greens and reds. A three-layer border includes an outer section with a weaving line, with circular petal-like designs in between the rises and falls of the line and the line and petals in whites, reds, blues, and greens. The middle ring has a red background with petals and a series of four dots between them. Having a weaving line like the outer ring, the inner has a blue background and diamond-shaped designs between the line's rises and falls in white, red, blue, and green. Eight geometric shapes on a red background in varieities of whites, reds, blues, and greens comprise the central section. The rug, which has white fringe at the ends, is in good condition.Lexicon
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Three-dimensional, Rugs, Rugs--Middle East, Rugs, Persian, Rugs, Oriental--Middle East
