Technique: Gabbeh
Origin: Iran
Age: Old
Welft: Wool
Warp: Wool
Vello: Wool
Gabbeh inserted in this category are few old pieces remained: very soft and brightness wools. Gabbeh are exclusively hand knotted carpets in wool almost made by the women of the nomadic tribes that populated the southwest of Iran and that were inspired by the surrounding environment. Once were used not only as carpets, but also as mattresses or covered, in fact they are soft and higher than other ersian rugs (some pieces reach 4 cm. high pile). 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. Many seem dyed in irregular way but this is the result of the use of colors created with craftsmanship.
