Bidjar carpet

This sturdy and elegant Bidjar gallery carpet from the Kurdish region of Northwest Persia draws a highly graphic and dramatic rendition of the floral ‘garus’ design of flowering shrubs enclosed within a lattice of stylized red lilies. Color is spectacular with vibrant gold, green, blue, and red illuminating against an indigo ground. The border depicts roses originating from French needlepoints and tapestries. This adaptation of European flowers is known in Persian as ‘gol-i farang’ or Western roses and was particularly popular among Bidjar weavers.