Technique: Handknotted
Origin: Iran
Age: New
Welft: Wool
Warp: Wool
Vello: Wool
The GABBEH BUSHIR is a rug of modern production from Iran that in comparison to other normal gabbeh has more qualities: it is not heavy, it has a lower high pile (1 cm) and it's very full of knot; in fact it is soft, light and with a very shiny and bright wool that is index of good quality. They characterize for the brightness colors as yellow, red and blue, and for the primitive subjects from the rustic charm, based on linear geometric forms that often reproduce figures of stylized animals. The colors are natural, realized according to ancient recipes that use plants and roots as the pomegranate, the root of robbia, the indigo.
