Number 1104
Type Village
Style Prayer Rug
Material Wool & Silk
Origin Kurdish
Size 205 x 118
Age 1930
Very very of these Pardeh doorway rugs survive. Almost all of the ones I've seen belong to the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad. This part-silk beauty belonged there but was deaccessioned later in the 20th century before their Museum was set up. It would have hung along a doorway in place of a door, so that the faithful would cross between its flaps and enter into the prayer hall. This would have kept the separation of public and private space clear and also would keep the notorious cold of Khorasan winters and heat of Central Asian summers out of the interior. A museum piece, something that can't be replaced!
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