High Quality Contemporary Wool Area Rugs For Your Floor
High quality area rugs made from fine New Zealand or Himalayan wool, can be found in contemporary designs even if you want hand knotted or hand tufted pieces crafted by artisans in Iran, India and Turkey. Naturally the very best contemporary wool area rugs are woven from the top New Zealand wool, but as difficult as it may be to imagine, the wool is sent from New Zealand to the weavers in the East. The weavers follow the patterns or modern designs they have been given by the dealers or distributors while using ancient techniques and weaving the wool by hand. Then, these very fine, high quality area rugs are sent back to the West and sold as Contemporary rugs. However, not all the designs are commissioned. There are fine wool carpet weavers who use their own creativity and craft contemporary, even ultra modern motifs, into their traditional weaves. Most notorious are the Gabbeh rugs.
Contemporary Wool Area Rugs From The Zagros Mountains
Zagros is a region in northwestern Iran where natural fiber wool carpets have been woven by the women for centuries. They are called Gabbeh rugs because the word Gabbeh means natural. And they are natural in more ways than one. First they are woven from the finest wool, either from the region or brought in from New Zealand. Second, they are all hand knotted and dyed with natural tints. But the most unique thing about these quality area rugs s that each one is a unique story of one woman’s life. The weavers, all women, tell of their triumphs and heartaches using geometric and symbolic figures that are unique to each woman. They are a sort of coded geometric and asymmetrical description of a day or an event or a part of their life that has been hidden in the weave, not using traditional or well-known imagery, but artistic shapes and colors that are each unique. What results is a modern work of art knotted into the fibers of a thick pile wool rug that is then exported to dealers around the world. The high quality area rugs crafted in the Zagros Mountains by these women are some of the most contemporary wool area rugs you will ever see, and yet they are made far from western civilization, far from the cities where decorators seek modern designs to accent avant-garde lofts and apartments of their clients.
There are cheap imitations and knockoffs, however a genuine Gabbeh area rug is not a cheap item. They start at around $1,000 and go up from there. Nevertheless, if you are after area rugs that are unique, cotemporary, ultra chic and come with a unique history, then you should seriously consider one of these rugs for your home.
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