Woven for centuries, Gabbeh is tribal rugs favored among the Kurdish, Luri, and Qashqai people in the Zagros Mountains in Iran. Traditionally, the knotting and weaving of nomadic carpets are a woman's domain and area of expertise.

Although the Persian carpet became known in Europe sometime after the Turkish carpet, we will treat it first, thus rendering it deserved homage...

Ask anyone who has grown to love their oriental rug how valuable it is, and the chances are they will term it priceless. Like any other work of art, a rug can be valued in o categories - as a cherished object which has become part of the home or as an item of investment. Also like other forms of art, the two are often hard to separate.