TMC wrote:Personally, I don't think it looks Hamadan or Turkish. It has some south-persian decorations (the little animals, for instance) but isn't a nomadic-made rug. I would say it looks like a workshop rug from a Persian city that has used some south-persian nomadic motifs in the design. What city or when it was made is beyond my limited knowledge.
My first impression of the rug was the overall look was Turkish like Konyia or something but as you said there was the animals and 2 of 5 thought Hamedan, for what reason I do not know.
It's a strange one. I've never seen anything like it.
The story behind it was the owner apparently inherited it from their Royal Air Force father/grandfather when he was in Iran before WW2. I would imagine that would make it the 30s but no idea if the rug was new. It's pretty fine, especially for that design and the wool seems like it was top quality, it's almost silky and still soft even now.
