Tabriz Carpet

The handmade Tabriz rugs have many varieties like Herati/ Mahee, coumbat, pictorial and even 3d shaped carpets.

They use ornamental patterns to weave the carpets with a background color of cream, red and navy blue. But in some quality carpets the colors reach up to 250. Cheap carpets are often colored with chemical dye, but in the villages they use vegetable dye such as for red they use root of wild madder, for green turmeric berries, for blue indigo plants etc.

Nowadays, many of the carpets are made by machines which are cheaper; because of less time in production of the machines make the carpets cheaper while a handmade carpets takes months and sometimes years.

When we talk about sizes of Tabriz rugs there is no limit in length no restriction in width. But some of them are more than half centimeters in thickness. It can come in many shapes like round and square and rectangular. The small carpets are naturally sizes between 2 feet 1 inches in width and 2 feet 11 inches in height to 3 feet 4 inches wide and 5 feet in height. Larger carpets are basically about 8 feet 2 inches in width and 11 feet and 5 inches in height and can be larger than this when it comes to a palace size. Because of the city of Tabriz which is populated by the Azerbaijanis it could be said that they are mostly originated from the Persian culture.