A BEAUTIFUL VINTAGE BAKHTIARI PERSIAN HAND WOVEN RUG IN CAPE TOWN

BEAUTIFUL HAND WOVEN IN FINE WOOL VINTAGE BHAKTIARI  RUG FROM IRAN 2.90M x 1.61M  WAS R NOW R The Bakhtiari tribes people of the rugged Zagros Mountains are famed for their perilous annual migrations over snow-capped peaks and for their lustrous, deep-toned antique tribal carpets displaying grand scale, cornucopian designs. An early 20th-century visitor to the lush Chahar Mahal district in Central Persia noted: “To me Bakhtiari carpets are among the most interesting of the tribal village weavings of Persia... for they have that quality which we call character: that is, individuality, sincerity, and strength.”