Chintamani Flag of Timurid Empire Chintamani is a well celebrated motif in Turko-Mongol tradition widely used all over the Orient on various objects from Amir Timur’s badge to the Ottoman royal rugs.                                              

SHAH ABBASI RUG Kirman Rug: Portrait of Shah Abbas Abbas the great may be the most celebrated Safavid Shah and one of the most significant Persian Shahs in the Iranian late history and also a well-remembered fairy king in folkloric tales and songs. Enthroned in Isfahan he put an end on Ottomans’ encroaching and kicked

PEACOCK Rug Peacock rug, The Peacock may symbolize the magnificence of royalty and the glory of the heaven as well as temptation and extravagant luxury. In India, Persia and Babylonia, the peacock is seen as a guardian to royalty and is often engraved upon royal thrones.   Persian Peacock Domes, Sheikh Lotfollah mosque, Isfahan  

MOTHER AND INFANT Mother and Infant Rug ‘Mother and Infant’, ‘Mother and Child’, ‘Mother and daughter’ and even ‘Pregnant Boteh’ are terms to name variants of Boteh motif in which one or some secondary boteh(s) are inside the main ones. Antique Persian Malayer Village Rug, Mother And Child Boteh Design, Circa 1900 Such botehs could

MEMLING GUL Memling Gul Memling Gul is a common carpet motif named after the European artist Hans Memling (1430 –1494). He was a German painter who moved to Flanders and worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He had used to picture carpets in his paintings. Carpets depicted in Memling’s paintings mostly designed with

LION Lion in Rugs, Lion is a well celebrated animal in the Persian culture. Lions appear on rock reliefs as well as textiles and carpets during the Iranian history, representing heroes, Shahs of Persia and even saints or holy spirits of various religions such as Mithraism, Zoroastrianism and Islam It is safe to claim that

Horse Horse rug, Horses has been frequent figures in Persian rugs since the very beginning of the art. Actually they have been depicted on the most ancient piled rug found, the Pazyryk Carpet, woven circa 500 BC. The motif had a focal position in art and crafts of the area even before the date mentioned,

Laleh Abbasi Laleh Abbasi rug (Abbasi tulip) is the most iconic type of Shah Abbasi flowers woven amongst Khitaei foliates vastly by the Persian weavers. Though the motif named after Shah Abbas the great, in carpet and tiling terminology, it is a far ancient motif used by Egyptians and Mesopotamians as well as ancient Persians,

Harshang Harshang Rugs is the Turkish pronunciation of kharchang (xarchang), Persian for the crab. The design is also called “flaming palmette” or simply crab design. hashrang rugs It is an all-over design of palmettes motifs with foliate extensions suggesting a crab’s pincers. Named probably by Turkic nomads of Azerbaijan and Caucasus, the design are thought