Multicolored 9x12 Gabbeh

Vibrant Large Sized Gabbeh with Colorful Pattern This is a really fun larger Gabbeh that we recently brought into the store. It has several bands of patterning running vertically in all sort of configurations of stripes and colors. The overall affect is of a "red" rug but the list of vibrant colors in the pattern is nearly endless. These large Gabbeh rugs have become harder and harder to find on the market and we feel that we are lucky to have found several on a recent trip to see our friends at Zollanvari in New York. One fascinating thing about Gabbeh rugs is that all the colors seen here are derived from natural occurring sources. The reds are from the root of the madder plant, which takes 5 years to mature enough for harvesting to use in dye production. The various orange and ambers are achieved when pomegranate skins are added to the vats of madder dye. all the blue tones are derived form the indigo plant native to the region the semi-nomadic herders migrate their flocks though wi