Object Literature
Near the Turkestan border of eastern Iran, in the large territory named Khurasan, is the town of Meshed, an important collecting center for rugs and a depot for some nomad rugs. Meshed rugs are knotted on a foundation of cotton, though in some cases there may be wool in the weft. Red is the most usual colour, but the ground may be mauve, with a pattern in cream. Meshed rugs often have a well designed center medallion and large corner patterns. The ground is quite often strewn with an abundance of multi-coloured posies and leaves. The whole rug has a frame of borders, made up, in the best Iranian tradition, of a broad main border and several lesser borders.
An important bonafide country house carpet, its age, quality and size being a testament to this.