Vintage Persian Malayer Rug vintage rug Balkh rugs carry the same

Balkh rugs carry the same origins as the Afghan Chobi tradition — born in Northern Afghanistan

northern Afghanistan

Size: 148 x 90 cm | 4'10" x 3'

Size: 227 x 169 cm | 7'6" x 5'7"

Size: 187 x 100 cm | 6'2" x 3'3"

Vintage Persian Malayer Rug vintage rug Balkh rugs carry the sameThis rug comes from Malayer, a city in western Iran that sits at a cultural crossroads between the bold geometric traditions of Hamadan and the more refined floral aesthetics of Sarouk and Farahan. That position shaped everything about how Malayer weavers worked, borrowing from both traditions, filtering them through their own sensibility, and producing something that belongs entirely to neither. Malayer rugs were almost exclusively made by individual