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#1 Posted : Friday, December 19, 2008 3:28:42 PM(UTC)
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What would be the reasonable price to pay for a Tabriz rug with medallion with herati/mahi designs. It is of 8.3x11.3 on one side and 8.5x11.3 on the other side. Except for the size mismatch, the rug looks perfect in excellent condition to my novice eyes. It has all wool pile. NO silk highlights.
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#2 Posted : Friday, December 19, 2008 10:57:24 PM(UTC)
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welcome to the forum

How much are you considering purchasing it for?

Is it private party? Retail? and where is your location
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#3 Posted : Saturday, December 20, 2008 6:24:53 AM(UTC)
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I am in California. It is a store, he gets rugs from Iran and sells it, it seems. He is saying it is $4300.
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#4 Posted : Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:33:44 AM(UTC)
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Perhaps a Moud rug. But the photos are not detailed enough to say for sure if this is a rug made in Bidjar. Similar designs are made in other areas as well. However, the rug appears to be of Persian Origin.

Although the rug looks great in the room, these are not easy selling colors, and the value of the rug could be affected by the ability to sell such. These are not the colors that the American market would normally respond to. Providing the rug is in perfect, unused condition, without any obvious defects, such a rug would sell around $4300 in the average retail store. However, the colors detract from the price and this should be factored into what is paid. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It depends on what you're willing to pay. It looks fantastic in the room.
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#5 Posted : Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:43:37 PM(UTC)
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Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated.
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#6 Posted : Friday, March 20, 2009 6:48:18 PM(UTC)
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If you doubt this dealer in any way, I'd keep looking. I can personally recommend my friend in LA, Khosrow Sobhe. 310-770-9085 http://www.rugidea.com/
I hope this is OK, I'm new to the forum...

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#7 Posted : Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:47:54 PM(UTC)
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As Rugpro mentioned it is probably Moad rug. What do you think the reasonable price to pay for it ?
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#8 Posted : Monday, October 19, 2009 12:01:01 PM(UTC)
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googi2 wrote:
What would be the reasonable price to pay for a Tabriz rug with medallion with herati/mahi designs. It is of 8.3x11.3 on one side and 8.5x11.3 on the other side. Except for the size mismatch, the rug looks perfect in excellent condition to my novice eyes. It has all wool pile. NO silk highlights.


This carpet certainly not Tabriz. It is Moud carpet. the reasonable price - no more than 2000$.
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#9 Posted : Wednesday, November 25, 2009 7:07:08 AM(UTC)
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On this topic, and somewhat not on it, why is a design called a fish or mahi design? I am trying to figure out what the fish are. I have seen a couple of motifs that I think could qualify, but I am not sure. Our malayer rug may have some of these designs (that is a nice, inexpensive, rug).
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#10 Posted : Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:44:45 AM(UTC)
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You need to find a "centre rhomboid motive", then you'll see four sort of banana-bent leave designs around it, with the opening of the curve to the outside, and then with the opening of the curve to the inside, another four banana-bent leave designs, further away from the center. These leaves look a bit like little fish (to Iranians at some point at least), hence the name. (Actually, the second four come from the surrounding repeats of the same pattern.) This picture of a Semi-Antique Sarouk shows it nicely.
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#11 Posted : Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:06:01 AM(UTC)
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Thanks, Shereen. I think that that design is on our Malayer rug. They do sort of look like fish and may be one of the things that helped get paisley started.
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#12 Posted : Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:29:07 AM(UTC)
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Sounds like you need to get

Oriental Carpet Design: A Guide to Traditional Motifs, Patterns and Symbols

P. R. J. Ford

Thames & Hudson (2008), Paperback, 352 pages


There are many that refer to this book as the rug bible.



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#13 Posted : Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:41:39 AM(UTC)
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Jim

I have been spending too much money on rugs and music equipment. Now hopefully I can remember this book and buy it. I am sure that I will really like it. I bought the In Search of the Madder book because it wasn't expensive and I thought it would tell me how they made the rugs; it didn't tell you that much about it. Thanks.
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