HOT ! Vintage Persian Malayer Runner

This rug comes from Malayer, a city in western Iran that sits at a cultural crossroads between the bold geometric traditions of Hamadan and the more refined floral aesthetics of Sarouk and Farahan. That position shaped everything about how Malayer weavers worked, borrowing from both traditions, filtering them through their own sensibility, and producing something that belongs entirely to neither.

Malayer rugs were almost exclusively made by individual weavers working from home looms, each piece a personal expression rather than a workshop product. The wool is sourced from local sheep, lustrous and durable, hand-knotted on a cotton foundation using the Turkish symmetrical knot. The low pile keeps the detail sharp and the surface refined.

The designs are intricate and varied, Herati fish motifs, dense boteh patterns, stylised florals and geometric medallions, often with a colour palette of deep indigo, rust red, sage and ivory that is more nuanced than most Persian village rugs. As a vintage piece, those colours have already mellowed into a richness that only time and authentic dyes together can produce.