Vintage Persian Malayer Long Runner
No. 32731
Persia, Mid-20th Century
3 ft. 7 in. x 16 ft. 11 in.
(1.08 x 5.12 m)
A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. The pale powder grey field shows a uniquely Malayer variant on the Herati design, with a central column of attached, fringed diamonds, and flanked by bent leaves, rosettes and smaller diamonds. Strip style main straw border with reversing, ragged pyramidal palmettes. Boteh and rosette minors.
