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Near & Far Oriental Rugs

Name: Near & Far Oriental Rugs
Address: 900 King Street, London, ON, N5W5K3, CA
Telephone: 519-642-7710
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http://orientalrugimport.com Hand made Oriental & Persian Rugs. Available by appointment Monday - Friday. Selling, cleaning & repairing oriental rugs.

Open Saturdays at the Western Fair Farmers & Artisan Market. Specializing in hand made Persian & Afghan rugs with a good selection of antique Persian carpets up to 100 years old.

11/29/2025

Black Friday Sale on now.

Save 45% to 50% on selected rugs this weekend.

Near & Far Persian Rugs
The Market @ the Western Fair.

Saturday 8-3pm and Sunday 10am-2pm.

09/06/2025

Rug of the Week

The Arak area of Iran has been a powerhouse of Persian carpet weaving since the early 1800s.

The area is a bleak landscape with harsh, dry summers and severe winters. It has prospered agriculturally however, as one of Iran’s largest grainaries and probably produced a greater number of large carpets in the twentieth century than any other region.

Most of the weaving was done in workshops following Manchester based Ziegler & Co. coming to the area and setting up looms for its export of carpets to the US and Europe in the late 1800s.

This week’s featured rug is known as a Mir Saraband. The repeated botehs in the field is common often with a diamond medallion in the centre (absent here). The elongated vines in the border are another distinguishing characteristic of Mir Sarabands.

4’1” x 6’8”
Vintage
$690

08/16/2025

Rug of the Week

Yazd, an ancient desert city in central Iran, located on the Silk Road has a long history of rug weaving though the many cultural influences from its location result in rugs of a less distinct style than some other regions.

This week’s rug has an overall herati pattern. It also features a fine weave and a dense pile of high quality wool. These high quality characteristics are something that does define Yazd rugs.

4’5” by 6’8”
New.
$890

08/09/2025

Rug of the Week

Our Persian rug for this week is an exquisite mid 20th century Amaleh Qashqaii piece. The Qashqaii confederation is a loose political and cultural alliance of 6 main Turkic speaking nomadic tribes in the southern Fars region of Iran.

The Amaleh traditionally moved seasonally between summer pastures in the Zagros Mountains while wintering near the coastal lowlands closer to the Persian Gulf. The very name “Amaleh” is thought to mean “workers” or “the people connected to service” in a tribal context—historically they seem to have been closely associated with the leadership of the confederation, and were sometimes considered the “khan’s own” tribe.

The strong diamond shaped central medallion nested inside yet another medallion distinguish this as a Amaleh rug. As does the large sunburst “Shamsa” in the corners and the multitude of small rosettes densely filling the field.

The bright orange from a synthetic dye date this rug as no earlier than the 1930s while the wool foundation place it closer to that time than later since as the 20th century progressed wool foundations were replaced with cotton ones.

6’0” x 8’11”
mid 20th century
$1190

08/02/2025

Rug of the Week

The Afshar are a historically nomadic Turkic tribe originating from Azerbaijan and Eastern Anatolia. Their rug weaving tradition dates back centuries, deeply rooted in their tribal identity, serving functional needs (tents, bags, floor coverings).

In the 16th-17th centuries, the Safavid Shahs (particularly Shah Abbas I) forcibly relocated large Afshar populations from their northwestern homelands to strategic regions in southeastern Iran, primarily around Kerman and Sirjan. This was done to protect borders and control powerful tribes particularly the Quashqaii.

In the 20th century Afshar rug weaving continues primarily as a cottage industry in villages around Kerman, Sirjan, Shiraz, and Yazd. While synthetic dyes became prevalent mid-century this rug from the early 1900’s uses natural dyes and is very much a traditional artifact of an resilient tribal tradition. Forced from its origins, they adapted in a new environment (Kerman), fiercely preserved its unique geometric and colorful identity against urban Persian influences, and evolved into a commercially successful and enduringly popular style known for its vitality and strength.

4’6” x 5’6”
circa 1900
$990

07/26/2025

Rug of the Week

The Borchalu are descendants of Mongol invaders living in a mountain valley in the Hamadan region of Iran.

While rugs have been woven for centuries there Borchalu weaving peaked in the late 19th and early twentieth centuries. The combination of floral and geometric elements, natural dyes and high quality wool has made them highly collectible.

5’2” x 7’3”
$990
New.

07/19/2025

Rug of the Week

Farahan Sarouks are coveted by collectors for their artistry, historical depth, and enduring quality, reflecting a pivotal era in Persian rug-making. Rug weaving in this region is known to date back to the late 1700s.

The Farahan region of central Iran is a vast, fertile plain surrounded by mountains, which provided an ideal environment for nomadic tribes and villagers to settle, weave, and trade.

The use of natural dyes derived from plants, insects, and minerals, yield the palette of soft, muted colors like terracotta, sienna, moss, and indigo seen in this rug of the week.

4’6” x 7’0”
Early 1900s.
$1590

07/12/2025

Rug of the Week

Armenian rugs from the Caucasus region during the early twentieth century represent a rich tapestry of cultural heritage, artistry, and resilience amid profound historical upheaval. These rugs were primarily woven by Armenian communities in the South Caucasus, particularly in areas like Karabakh (also spelled Karabagh or Nagorno-Karabakh), which straddles modern-day Armenia, Azerbaijan, and surrounding territories.

This rug of the week is dated 1911, the use of the Gregorian calendar show its Christian Armenian origin. Armenian rug weaving dates back to the Middle Ages.

Under Russian rule at this time weaving flourished and was a family affair, with women and girls doing most of the knotting, using looms set up in homes or workshops.

While it shows some wear the use of all natural dyes and renowned skill of Caucasian dyers result in the colours of this rug being virtually unchanged from when it was created 114 years ago.

3’9” x 6’5”
Dated 1911
$890

07/05/2025

Canada Say Sale Extended - Rug of the Week

40% to 60% off selected rugs this weekend featuring many room sized Persian carpets.

This week’s Rug of the Week is a Persian Joshagan. The carpet-weaving tradition in Joshagan dates back to at least the Safavid era (16th–17th centuries), a golden age for Persian art and craftsmanship.

Hand woven wool Joshagan rugs have a distinct pattern of flowers and trees arranged in diamond shapes over the field with an elaborate diamond shaped central medallion. The overall pattern is well suited to use in a dining room or any room where you might put furniture on the rug since the repeated motif isn’t spoiled by blocking part of the view of it.

New. Handknotted. Wool.
7’11” by 11’5”
Regular price: $2490
Sale price: $1490

06/28/2025

Canada Day Sale - Rug of the Week

The weekend is our Canada Day Sale with select rugs 40% to 60% off. This includes all sizes with many room sized rugs.

One rug in our sale is this new Bahktiar carpet. People of the Bahktiar tribe from the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran have been weaving unique rugs for centuries.

Bakhtiar carpets are celebrated for their artistic beauty, blending tribal and classical Persian design elements. They are often considered a bridge between nomadic and urban carpet traditions.

Once nomadic the Bahktiari are now largely settled in villages and towns. Bakhtiar rugs are made from high-quality wool, often sourced from the tribe's own sheep and are prized for their durability and quality.

New.
6’10” by 10’7”
Regularly: $1950
Sale Price: $890

03/01/2025

Rug of the Week

Sarouk is the name of an obscure village 20 miles north of Arak on the western fringe of the Ferahan Plain in Iran. It became the name of some of the most popular rugs ever produced in Iran though many of the rugs were likely produced in other villages or in Arak itself.

Used rugs of the region began to be bought up by Tabrizi merchants from the villagers and exported starting around 1870. They were a tightly woven rug with angular versions of floral designs. As demand outstripped supply the production went from local craft to looms and workshops established for export. In the 1920s the local designs were replaced with a singular pattern of separate floral sprays scattered across the field. This pattern was extremely popular especially in America until the 1960s and came to define “Sarouk” rugs.

This new rug is a “Sarouk” in the old style which has returned to the area as the twentieth century design faded.

4’2” x 6’9”. $825.

02/15/2025

Rug of the Week

Turkey in 1981 started the DOBAG project to try and revive the use of natural dyes, hand spun wool and traditional designs in their rugs where synthetic dyes and designs altered for the Western market had taken over.

This lead to both government certified DOBAG rugs which have a large leather label attached to the back of the rug and to unofficial natural dyed rugs that lack that government label.

This rug has natural dyes, a traditional Turkish village design and hand spun wool but was not part of the official government DOBAG project.

Unfortunately by 2021 the DOBAG project itself had withered away as rug weaving has ceased to be of any interest to younger Turks.

So here we have a rug of approximately 40 years showing a little wear while bearing witness to the difficulty of continuing a 4000 year old craft in the modern age. An attempt at a revival of a handcraft that faded once again in the pull of the modern world of machines and mass production.

2’9” x 4’4”. $450

Address

900 King Street
London, ON
N5W5K3

Opening Hours

Saturday	8am - 3pm
Sunday	10am - 2pm

Telephone

519-642-7710

Website

http://orientalrugimport.com/

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