Gabbeh Loribaft
331 × 249 cm
6.150 €
Gabbeh Loribaft
4.350 €
Incl. VAT
270 × 207(5.59 m²)
Hand-knotted
New (0-20 Years)
Iran / Persia
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About This Lori-Pars
Where it comes from
A Lori-Pars rug from the Zagros mountains of Iran, 270 x 207 cm (8'10" x 6'9"), a size that sits comfortably under a seating group or a dining table. Lori weavers work from memory rather than a drawn plan, and their rugs are known for bold, simplified geometry and grounded, confident colour rather than the medallions and borders of city weaving. This particular piece takes that plainness further than most: there is no border and no central motif at all, only colour, block against block.
What you see
The first impression is warmth: camel brown running through rust, sand and a scatter of oatmeal, laid out as an irregular checkerboard of rectangular fields. There is no medallion to anchor the eye and no framing border to contain the pattern — the blocks simply run to the edge, where the weave finishes in a narrow, unemphatic line. Within each block, rather than a flat wash of one colour, there is a visible graining, streaks of slightly different tone lying side by side, so that every rectangle reads as its own hand-coloured patch of wool.
How it was made
That graining is not a flaw to explain away but the plainest evidence of how the rug was made. The pile is hand-spun wool, dyed with plant and mineral colour from the mountains, and hand-spun wool never takes dye with perfect evenness the way machine-spun yarn does — hence the striation inside each block. Knotted by hand at a density of 201,000 to 250,000 knots per square metre, with a pile 11 mm deep, it stands soft and slightly thick underfoot rather than fine, and the wool has the natural sheen of yarn spun and coloured by hand rather than machine-processed fibre.
At home
In a living room, laid under a sofa group or a low table, the camel and rust warm a pale floor at once and hold their own comfortably against dark furniture, without the formality a bordered rug would bring to the same space. Underfoot it feels dense, soft and forgiving, built for a room that is actually used rather than kept for best. As daylight moves across it through the day, the graining inside each block shifts faintly with the light, so that a pattern which looks, at first, like plain blocks of colour keeps offering something new to notice.
More on Lori-Pars rugs: origin, making and how to recognise a genuine piece
Product Details
- Rug No.
- 633288
- Size
- 270 × 207 cm (5.59 m²)
- Thickness
- ca. 11 mm
- Knots
- 201,000 – 250,000 / m²
- Craft
- Hand-knotted
- Pile
- Hand-spun Wool
- Warp
- Natural Wool
- Origin
- Iran / Persia
- Age
- New (0-20 Years)
- Condition
- Perfect★★★★★
- Pattern
- Modern/Designer
- Weight
- ca. 20 kg
- Stock
- Unique — Only 1
Fine quality weave
Questions about this rug
Which room is this rug for?
At 270 × 207 cm (5.59 m²) this is a large rug. It sits under a seating group with the front legs of sofa and chairs on it, or under a dining table for four. A table for six wants about 80 cm of clearance all round, and needs more.
Is this rug hand-knotted?
Yes, knotted by hand — knot by knot on a loom, not machine-made. The density is 201,000 to 250,000 knots per square metre; across 5.59 m² that is roughly 1.1 to 1.4 million individual knots, every one of them tied by hand.
How do I care for this rug?
Hand-spun wool still carries its own lanolin, which keeps liquid sitting on the surface for a moment: blot quickly, with clear water and a light cloth, working inwards and without rubbing. Otherwise regular vacuuming along the pile is enough. Turn the rug once or twice a year so light and footfall reach it evenly.
Still have a question?
We are in the Hamburg Speicherstadt. Come and see this rug in daylight, or write to us — a person answers.
Service & Guarantee
Shipping
- Free within Germany & EU
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- 30-day return policy
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Authenticity
Certificate included verifying origin, materials, and craftsmanship.
Ref: 633288
