Persian Gabbeh Rug with 5 Diamonds and 3 Border Lines

Three stripes around the edge. Inside them, somebody had plans.

This Gabbeh rug comes from Persia, present day Iran, and dates to the early to mid 20th century. It is all wool. Gabbehs were woven by nomadic and village weavers for their own use, thick and soft enough to sleep on, with designs made up as the work went along. Five stepped diamonds punctuate an ivory field, the largest at the center of a saw-toothed brown framework. Three dark lines run around the border. Seventy-three inches long by forty-six wide.

It reads like a floor plan for a very orderly tent.