This last week the Persian Room and other Piper Street staples were featured on Postcards, Channel 9’s Victorian-based travel program. Catch Margaret chatting about rugs over on the Visit Victoria website.
The Persian Room on Postcards !
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Tribal Kurdy Quchan
The Tribal Kurdy Quchan is a rare and collectable Persian. With a tree of long life design full of pomegranates, grapes, pears, birds and flowers in centre and Cyprus trees on ends. Dating back to the later 20th Century. This carpet is hand spun using natural vegetable dyes. Made up of wool with golden silk …
Farah Dombeh Bakhtiari
Farah Dombeh is both rare and collectable. The abstraction of the “gul farang” (foreign flowers), make the work very distinctive. This stylised floral design was in use before the French modernist movement.
Qashqai Gebbeh
Gebbehs are simple rugs made for home use in the tent, rather than for the bazaar. In their simplest form the gebbehs were made with undyed wool, with long pile, and no pattern. They were slept on and under in the cold winters. This one is the work of a talented weaver, with a repeating motif of peahens on …
Saveh Qum
This is an exceptional Persian rug from the Saveh Qum region of Iran. A rare and collectible rug within the Persian umbrella, it is made from wool with silk flowers and silk base. The design is that of a tree of life, stylised with flowers, birds and butterflies. A hand made piece from the late …
Welcome to the Persian Room
Our collection of authentic Persian and oriental rugs features perfect pieces for your home, office and collection. Highly energised folk art pieces enliven the home and office, sophisticated city productions blend with other refined art works, and collectable gems will bring joy to the seekers of the beautiful and rare. The Persian Room collection spans …