Name/Title
PERSIAN YALAMA RUG RUNNEREntry/Object ID
98.8.2.1Description
Color: Blue, brown, red
A Persian Yalama rug runner, 1970s. The rug has a Russian Kazak influenced design with blues, browns, and reds, but was made in the town of Yalama along the western coast of the Caspian Sea near the northern border of Azerbaijan. There is a three-lyer border with the inner and outer sections in blue, brown, and white and the outer having a black edge band with white, brown, and blue details and the inner having a brown band toward the center with black, white, and blue details. The center portion of the rug has, on both sides, alternating zig-zag lines of white and black with brown figures. The inner section consists of 14 linked diamonds with two sets of zig-zag lines of blue and, within the diamonds, geometric and floral designs, like arrows and petals, in blue and brown fields with white, black, and brown details. There is white fringe on each end of the rug, which is in good condition.Lexicon
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Three-dimensional, Rugs, Rugs--Middle East, Rugs, Persian, Rugs, Oriental--Middle East
