Origin: Northern Afghanistan.
Dyes: 100% Vegetable dye (beautiful Indigo root blue).
Age: New unused.
Material: Sheeps wool (the soft belly wool)
Design: Garden of Eden, the birds are believed to be messengers from god in different shapes and forms such as; Nightingale, Peacock, Rooster, Swan.
The birds are recognised throughout Persian culture as symbols of intense love. This rug does not have a historical medallion or a border telling us the age, instead it is a composition of powerful flora and fauna.
If you read poems from Hafez & Rumi, you will understand everything.
Nightingale
O Bird, whose call raises the dead,
Nightingale with your voice of night and musk -
Ravish Venus with that song
Whose every note is new life! - Rumi (Persian Poet)