Qum - pair

Pair of Qum carpets from the nineteen twenties just as the carpet production in Qum was starting to grow in importance to compete with the houses in Isfahan and Kashan. The carpet fields comprise lines of boteh representing the seed of life and evidencing three flowers flourishing within the form. Their borders are also made up of boteh in different states of maturation, without the flowing tendrils found in the main field but with garlands of what may be older flowers around them. Two carpets that celebrate the eternal processes of life and change.