When you want a unique look and feel in a room or your entire home, adding Antique Oriental rugs can create magic. Decorating with antique rugs give your interior decorating a lift that updates, revitalizes and beautifies your home, by combining contemporary flair, with classic elegance. Rugs can add dramatic color, a focal point, a warm look and protection for stone and hardwood floors without sacrificing visibility. The right choice can add lasting value to your living spaces.

Seneh silk seven color (#981232)

Senha Rug in the Gol-i- Bulbul Design (4.3 x 6.6)

Senha (Sanandaj) is the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran. and one expects the antique Persian hand-woven rugs from there to be urban in style and execution. This yellow ground piece in excellent condition on a seven-color silk warp is a fine example of this taste. The overall pattern of floral bouquets and perching nightingales (bulbuls) is precisely executed over a close background of leaves and stems. The narrow borders frame, but do not intrude, on the central panel. The pile is very short, the texture is crisp, and the back is sandy and firm in feel. Few antique Persian rugs can better express the aesthetic of late 19th century urban Iranian weaving.

Shopping for an oriental rug is more than just an ordinary shopping expedition, if you are looking for something beyond the commonly available machine woven department store offerings. To shop for a handwoven carpet is more like stepping back in time to the open air bazaars. They hang on rods from floor to ceiling or are stacked 3 feet up from the floor where you have to skim through them one by one, trying to imagine what they would look like in the office or the great room. Yet what do we really know about Oriental rugs and their origins?