Southwestern Area Rugs
<The primary southwestern area rugs weaving areas of Persia are mostly known by the city names from where the typical rich and beautiful wool and silk southwestern rug with curvilinear floral designs are made. The woven southwestern area rugs of this territory have characteristics that are similar to one another and are strikingly different than other southwestern area rug weaving areas.
The southwestern area rugs are distinctly floral, representing leaf, bud and flower and show a tendency to naturalistic drawing with graceful and often intricate lines. Southwestern area rugs color schemes of delicate tones are not only beautiful, but are in perfect harmony.
The similarity of southwestern area rugs is partly due to past influence political, as well as the common ties of race and religion. All of this territory - including what is now western parts- was repeatedly under one central southwestern rugs dominant power.
Southwestern area rugs’ most distinctive tones are blues, reds, browns, and greens so arranged that the ground colors of border and field generally contrast, yet remain in near perfect harmony. On some Southwestern area rugs a central motif or medallion is sometimes omitted and instead an all-over design of repetitive floral icons is adopted. To attain the fine and beautiful Southwestern area rugs designs common to all Mohawk area rugs, the intensity of knots must be increased. Southwestern area rugs on the other hand, usually use geometric designs which are easier to achieve with wider spaced knots.