Vintage Persian Malayer Throw Rug

A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. The beveled red-brown field presents a distinctive Malayer interpretation of the Herati design, with open diamonds forming a central column and bent leaves, rosettes, and smaller diamonds filling the sides. The borders are entirely classic: an outer band of reversing fan palmettes, followed by botehs set in a trapezoidal meander, and a main stripe of pyramidal palmettes.