Decorate their homes, many people buy antique Persian rugs as an investment and the bright colors and exquisite hand-woven designs. However, there is much more that many of the design meets the eye! Although some old Persian rugs are designed for aesthetic models, many models also have a symbolic meaning behind them.
If diamonds consciously worked on the design, they can represent women, and almost always the pomegranate symbolize fertility, while peacocks usually associated with immortality. Different flowers and plants represent different things, for example, peonies withstand political power while the lotus can represent immortality, reincarnation and rebirth. Tulip can suggest wealth or prosperity, while mumps can represent emotional renewal. Trees can be woven into the design as a literal representation of the Tree of Life, which is a multi-cultural symbol of the way from earth to heaven (or from birth to death).
The colors of antique Persian rugs are also very representative of the traditional, although some rug colors are now more common than others, in part to compete with the likes of Western consumers. Red, which is now one of the most common color of the carpet, traditionally represented courage, love, happiness and beauty, while the blue and gold represents power and wealth. This is partly because when artisans began to dress and thousands of years ago, the design used so expensive that only the very rich blue dye can afford to buy material to make blue a sheet. Gold is as expensive as gold in some very old carpet yarn spun gold, sometimes very good. Historically, the green is not used because it is traditionally considered sacred and associated with the color of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. However, Green is now being used as appealing to consumer tastes West. White can be a number of different things, such as representing purity and peace, but also represents the death and is considered by some as a funeral color. Brown stands for fertility and a good harvest, while black represented destruction.
These symbols can be interpreted in one or all of the carpet could be considered as a whole, and the design can be further understood as a story. This example can be interpreted tapestry with a white diamond on a red background, representing happiness and sheer beauty of young women. Another example is a carpet that shows peacocks among the lotus flowers be interpreted as an indication of immortality and rebirth of a wealthy nobleman. On a blue background
Although this guide to help you decipher the symbolism and significance of the pattern in old Persian rugs, you should know that there are many fake Persian rugs on the market, in which only the design was copied from the old carpet, regardless of the symbolic fate. It is also possible that the design of the different regions in Iran slightly different symbolic meanings
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