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Mashhad
1930s
Size: 503 x 400 cm
Inventory No. 90350
Symmetrical knot
About 12000 knots per dm2
Warp: Cotton / Weft: Cotton / Pile: Wool

This carpet has a special place not only among the Amoghli carpets of Bank Melli Iran, but also among all other Amoghli pieces in private collections and museums. It is most certainly woven by Abdolmohammad Amoghli. It is safe to say that based on its age and condition, this carpet was rarely used and there is a chance that it has never been installed on the floor for an extended period. This lachak toranj (medallion corner) design, much like other top-notch designs of Abdolmohammad Amoghli is filled with thousands of motifs. It is almost unimaginable how this design came to be in a time before grids were printed on paper. This is a yek-chaharom (one-quarter) design which means the design plate had a surface of 4 m? (excluding the border). The grids of this carpet's design plate were most probably implemented on paper by hand. Another hypothesis is that in order to make it easier for the weaver to comprehend all elements of the design and subsequently attempt to weave, the design plate was made up to twice the size of the carpet but the required amount of warps, wefts and wool matched the delicacy of the design. Even in that case a design plate with 8 m? of surface had to be drawn as explained which is hard to imagine.
The border of this carpet followed the same tradition as other samples from this family, as it has a similar and known design consisted of 5 rows. The widest border is dark blue with three types of shah abbasi flowers and two types of sarv-botteh (cypress-botteh). The said bottehs come together to make a beautiful combination that spins around a shah abbasi flower and somehow resemble the famous herati pattern.

Mashhad carpet Inventory No. 90350