Forest Scene 6x9 Gabbeh

Handmade Contemporary 6x9 Gabbeh Area Rug

This moody forest scene of birch like trees extends in to the horizon while a foreground suggesting it was painted by Klimt has been handknotted in various squares and other shapes for a slightly abstract feel.

Gabbehs are some of the heartiest, hard wearing, and charmingly unique rugs available to the discerning rug buyer today. Still made by hand using timeless techniques, each Gabbeh is a world unto itself. The weavers are allowed immense latitude to document images from their lives and travels, as well as the exploration of capturing feelings or moods. The entire process to make a truly authentic Gabbeh is done by hand, just as it's been for hundreds of years. From the sheering of the sheep raised and migrated with the seasons for generations, to the hand spinning of the yarns with drop spindles, this produces a fiber that is peerless as a medium to produce some of the most durable hand-woven rugs ever produced. The sourcing of the dyes is based in vegetable and roots native to the Iranian plateau. The rich reds are produced from the roots of the madder plant, once it has matured for 5 to 7 years before it is ready to make the iconic reds seen in many Gabbehs. The various blue tones are all derived from the indigo plant, and a layering of these blues and the yellows produced from onion skins and thistles results in the verdant greens so often seen in Gabbeh rugs. But it all comes back to the wool and how the lack of chemical or mechanized processing retains the natural lanolin. This allows not only each strand of wool to take the dyes in their own way, but even within the same individual fiber a volume and depth of color to be present.

This is just one example of the many wonderful rugs that we have in our showroom. Purchase through our site and have it shipped to you, or come see this or any of our other unique and one-of-a-kind hand-knotted rugs in person in our 2037 NW Lovejoy Street showroom in NW Portland, Oregon.

• Measures: 6'1" x 9'2"
• Materials:Handspun Wool and Naturally Sourced Dyes
• Hand-knotted by Semi-Nomadic Persian Weavers
• Rug #9169

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