الوصف

Tableau rug (also called tableau carpet, pictorial carpet or wall carpet), a subset of Persian handmade carpet, is type of hand-woven carpet made in dimensions smaller than floor carpet with higher aesthetic and artistic aspects, hung from the wall for decoration to reminisce a pleasant memory, evoke a historical event or site, depict a natural scene, nomadic life, nature and so on. Handmade tableau rug is a sample of fine Iranian art considered as luxuries object from invention time that may depicts landscape sceneries, animals, miniature, ancient relics and flower pots. Other styles of tableau rug are French style, portrait, statues and Persepolis. Tableau rugs have usually frames to use.

Multiplicity of dyes, higher density of knots and delicacy used in creation of picture carpet is its inevitable nature to create a fine splendid art work.

The origin of handmade Tableau rug is "Sardroud" in southwest Tabriz, one of the main cities active in handmade rug production that creative and skillful rug makers here introduced about *0 years ago for the first time tableau rugs hand-woven from wool and silk.Today, handmade tableau rugs are weaved almost allover the east Azerbaijan province that all are known as "Tabriz Tableau rug".