• History

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Three generations in the Pak Persian business

Ensuring that we have an excellent track record and established contacts, ensuring the best selection of rugs and kelims. We import directly into S.A and this helps to ensure our highly competitive prices. Visit a showroom near you where our friendly and expert staff will provide you with excellent service and advice on your rug purchase. We can also arrange a consultation in your home, where our consultants will ensure the selection you choose will complement your style and provide a cohesive look throughout. We’ll help you make your living spaces come alive with luxurious warmth and spellbinding beauty. Make your house a home with our wonderful selection of rugs and kelims.

What is a Persian Rug?

An authentic Persian rug is a handmade carpet that is either knotted with pile or woven without a pile. Traditionally, Oriental rugs have been woven in Iran , Turkey , Pakistan , India , Afghanistan , China , the Caucasus (currently Armenia , Azerbaijan , Dagestan) and Turkestan.

Persian – design rugs made by machine or any other method other than handknotting or weaving do not qualify as genuine Oriental rugs. The designs and variations used in Persian rugs are so numerous that it would be impossible to describe all of them. A common misconception is that “no two Persian rugs are the same”. Although essentially true, the same design may be used in more than one rug, but since each rug is handmade slight variations in weave and design are inevitable.

No matter how skilled the weaver, it is impossible to exactly duplicate another rug. Every rug will differ slightly.

Persian rugs are available in surprisingly broad ranges of colour and design to fit any décor and lifestyle. In some countries, such as India , Pakistan and China , carpet weaving has evolved into a mass-produced, commercial activity. This has resulted in rugs of a specific design being woven in a variety of colour combinations and sizes. In other areas, tribal women still spin and dye their own wool.

The dyes are gathered locally from shrubs, roots and trees. These women weave what they feel and what they see around them, and do not work from a pre-made pattern.
Whether a rug is made in a large factory, a small workshop, an individual home, or by a nomad, is reflected in the designs and materials used.
It is thus often possible to establish where a rug comes from by what designs, materials and colours have been used.

Branches:

Pak Persian Carpet Gallery

Brooklyn Pretoria Branch

167 Justice Mahomed Street,
CNR Jan Shoba Street
Brooklyn
Pretoria
Tel: 071 336 4461

Pak Persian Carpet Gallery

Canal Walk Shopping Centre Branch

Shop U643 Entrance 6
Canal Walk Shopping Centre
Cape Town
Tel: 021 552 9116

Pak Persian Carpet Gallery

Rosebank Branch

209 Jan Smuts Avenue,
Parktown North,
Johannesburg 2193

Tel: 011 880 2222

Pak Persian Carpet Gallery

Tygervalley Shopping Centre Branch

Shop LL006
Tygervalley Shopping Centre
Bellville 7530
Cape Town
Tel: 021 974 9071

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