Antique Amritsar Carpet

Amazing early antique Amritsar carpet with a rare soft green border and early animal design with large floral motifs, again we can see early cloud-bands floating in the central design.  Woven around 1870  the dyes are all vegetable - the yellow being probably manufactured from Saffron.  Early green dyes have been used along in the border with muted red dyes for the main field colour.  Low pile is visible on this ancient carpet, this in many ways enhances the look and feel of this 150 year old carpet, with minimal old repairs the majority of the carpet is all original but in beautiful faded order.

Amritsar rugs and carpets are produced in Amritsar located in the northwest of India, near the Kashmir region. While India does in fact boast a long history of weaving fine rugs and carpets Amritsar rugs are unique in the wide gamut of traditional Indian styles. This is because the weavers of Amritsar had not developed a distinctive style of rug making until the early nineteenth century – hundreds of years after other regions of India had first developed their own weaving traditions. While regions of southern and western India began weaving Persian-influenced rugs during the reign of the Mughal Emperors, who preferred the traditional aesthetics and design elements of the Persians, the weavers of Amritsar took their direction from somewhere different: the sensibilities of the West.

We have been visiting customers all over the UK from London to Aberdeen, Ireland and Europe over the last 25 years.  If you would like us to show you this stunning Amritsar carpet and any alternatives in-situ it would be a pleasure to show it to you.  Request a home visit or contact us to visit our showroom where we can have this carpet ready for you to view.

Farnham Antique Carpets are specialists in antique decorative carpets, rugs and runners. Varying from antique tribal rugs woven in the Caucasus to classical Persian carpets dating from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century.

As members of the BADA - The British Antique Dealers Association and LAPADA - The Association of Art & Antique Dealers we adhere to strict guide lines as affiliated members and pride ourselves on maintaining its high standards. We exhibit at the BADA fair in Chelsea, London every March and the LAPADA Fair in Mayfair, London every September.