Isfahan Semi-antique Omar Khayyam, circa 1950 chobi rug 8- Includes leather binding (leatherette

8- Includes leather binding (leatherette strips) which are hand-stitched under the free edges of the rug

They were a response to the North American fashion taste that intended to modify the boldness of traditional persian and oriental rugs in order to give a muted and antique look of natural wood color that was desired by the modern fashion industry and interior design community

Rugs with exclusively pure silk piles are regarded as being among the most valuable of all hand-knotted rugs

The Salor "gul" is octagonal with spiked projections pointing both inward and outward from its rim

They were first seen in North America in the mid 1990's

Isfahan Semi-antique Omar Khayyam, circa 1950 chobi rug 8- Includes leather binding (leatherettenarrative poem composed in 584 1188 by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, as the third part of his Khamsa. It is a popular poem praising their love story. Lord Byron, a 18th Century English poet, called it "the Romeo and Juliet of the East.