Persian Carpet Design

GROUP 10 – Hunting Ground Patterns

As with the tree patterns, the animals depicted in these carpets are lifelike Sub-patterns include Tree Hunting Ground, Panel Hunting Ground, Medallion Hunting Ground and Allover Hunting Ground

GROUP 11 – Panel Patterns

The basis of this design is a multi-sided motif. Sub-patterns are Spiral Panel, Korean Panel and Column Panel

GROUP 12 – European Flower Patterns

These patterns are compositions of original Persian designs with roses in light and dark colours. Sub-patterns include Rose, Bijar Flower, Mostowfi Flower, Panel Flower, Flower Bouquet. and Rose and Nightingale.

GROUP 13 – Vase patterns

In these patterns, vases are used in different sizes: a large vase may cover the whole carpet or a small vase may be repeated throughout the ground. Among the many sub-patterns are Khatai Vase, Two-way Vase, Mehrabi Vase, Allover Vase, Chain Vase, Haji Khanom Vase, Repeated Vase, Scarf Medallion and Vase and One-way Vase.

GROUP 14 – Interwined Fish Patterns

Although varied and enriched by modern designers, this pattern, originally product of the nomadic imagination, retains its tribal character. First woven in Birjand in the province of Khorassan, the design spread to become common as far away as Hamadan and Azerbaijan, where each area made its own distinctive alterations. Hence, we have Heart Fish, Farahan and Beehive fish, Semeh (Sanandaj) or Kurdestan Fish, tiny Fish, Fragmented Fish and interconnected Fish.

GROUP 15- Mehrab Patterns

prayer leader stands and is ornamented with pillars, chandeliers and florals. Among the sub-patterns are Tree Mehrab, Vase-Column Mehrab,  chandelier Mehrab, Vase Mehrab and Landscape Mehrab.

GROUP 16- Striped (Moharramat) Patterns

This name isapplied to the designs which are repeated in stripes running the length of a carpet, each stripe having its own special motifs and colors. Some places in Iran, this pattern is called Ghalamdani (pencase). Sub-patterns include Overall Pencase, Tiny Flower(with one background color)  and paisley (with different background colors).

GROUP 17- Composites

In addition to the original patterns, each of which has a special name and history, with the passage of time new patterns have been created by combining two more of the original patterns. Sub-patterns of these composites are called Twisted Branch Medallion, Chain Medallion, Interconnected Vase and Spiral, Landscape Floral Bouquet, Green Field, Plain Ground and interconnected Floral Bouquet.