Floral Ghoum Rug With Botehs, 135 X 210 Cm, Hand-knotted Wool In Iran Circa 1970, Very Good Condition

Floral Ghoum rug with botehs, soft and comfortable, piece measuring 135 cm wide by 210 cm long.
This piece is hand-knotted, work around 1970, in very good condition. Beautiful shine of the wool, thanks to a slight addition of silk. The beginning of the manufacture of Ghom rugs in Iran was established in this city around 1920/1930. It is to the initiative and perseverance of the knotters and merchants of Kashan to whom we owe these wonders.
Our model adopts the criteria of the Ghoum of good quality, knotted with a magnificent quality of wool. It presents fine and precise designs, matched with colors pleasing to the eye. We also find, many similarities, in the medallions and borders with the Kashan type.
Our model presents, a pile and selvedges in very good condition. Initially the manufacture in Iran of these beautiful very resistant rugs is certainly recent. But the skilled and precise knotters as well as the "Ostads" cartoonists have imposed their know-how thanks to the perfection of their work and the amplitude of the range of designs and colors.
# Second holiest city of Iran 150 km from Tehran, Ghom is a major theological center.
The knot used is the Persian knot tied very tightly on a fine wool of high quality.
The decorations of plants, flowers, intertwined plants and animals, as well as the use of wool mixed with silk is done regularly. Each type of design remains stylized and the use of colors on the ghoum is always very harmonious
## The flowered ensemble of botehs of apricot color, straw yellow, forest green, pale blue, orange, decorated with bushes of flowers, notably red carnations.
The whole gives the impression of a rigorous Persian garden, classic of the Persians.
A large flowerbed covered with delicate botehs .Eight lines of six botehs cover the field, the border takes up the same motif. The decoration is of a very great delicacy of design matched with soft colors.
### The "boteh" is a Zoroastrian sign of immortality, the most credible hypothesis of its form is the representation of the cypress maynu spentas, it is believed to be associated with the light of the God Ormuzd and the person of Zoroaster.
At his death he is carried to the top of a mountain where he is transformed. Another legend: it would be a cypress of paradise planted by Zoroaster and Kashmar (Turchiz) which would have become the highest in the world.
A symbol coming from the mists of time.
The regular flowered border is followed on both sides by two pale blue background braids of the most beautiful effect; Marketing is done under several names: Qom, Ghom, Gom, Qum, Kum, and Ghoum.
Our model with boteh decoration is in very good condition, in a beautiful classic spirit and little colors common.
Dimensions: Width: 135 cm (53") x Length: 210 cm (83")
## This rug has been professionally and ecologically cleaned like all of our rugs.
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