Varamin All-Over Herati Navy

Varamin, situated southeast of Tehran on the Iranian plateau, is celebrated for producing some of the most structurally disciplined and chromatically intense village weavings in the Persian tradition — its weavers, many of Turkic and Luri descent, are particularly associated with the Mina Khani repeat, a centuries-old lattice pattern of exceptional graphic clarity. This vintage small-format carpet presents a dense, uninterrupted Mina Khani field on a ground of saturated midnight navy, the lattice formed by gently curved camel-toned vine stems that divide the surface into repeating ogival cells, each anchored by a multi-petalled rosette rendered alternately in rose pink with ivory centres and deep madder red with teal accents — a palette that speaks to the natural dyes characteristic of mid-twentieth-century Varamin production. The main border is a deep madder red carrying a flowing arabesque of oversized palmettes and split-leaf scrolls in ivory and rose, contained between two narrow guard stripes of reciprocal small-format ornament that sharpen the composition's framing. At 91x152 cm, this is a piece of considered intimacy — possessing the visual weight of a much larger carpet, it rewards close examination and suits a collector drawn to the austere confidence of provincial Persian weaving at its most resolved.