Vintage Persian Malayer Runner hand-knotted runner What sets a Pashm apart

What sets a Pashm apart the moment you see it is the pile

Malayer rugs were almost exclusively made by individual weavers working from home looms

The weavers here are predominantly Uzbek

And underfoot

The term Turkmen Tekke Engsi rug refers to a specific type of rug produced by the Tekke Turkmen people

Vintage Persian Malayer Runner hand-knotted runner What sets a Pashm apartThis rug comes from Malayer, a city in western Iran that sits at a cultural crossroads between the bold geometric traditions of Hamadan and the more refined floral aesthetics of Sarouk and Farahan. That position shaped everything about how Malayer weavers worked, borrowing from both traditions, filtering them through their own sensibility, and producing something that belongs entirely to neither. Malayer rugs were almost exclusively made by individual