Rugs.net · The Iron Rugs of Persia

Nobody in the World Has This Many Bijar Rugs.
Not Even in Persia.

Every size. Every shape. Every pattern. 3x5 to 13x20, squares, runners, odd sizes, antiques and palace weavings, all hand-knotted in Persia, all one of a kind, all in stock. We bought the entire range at once, and that is the reason the prices read the way they do.

You know a Bijar the second you lift one.

It weighs close to double what an ordinary rug of the same size weighs. The yarn goes on damp and every row is hammered down with a heavy metal comb, so the finished rug reaches a density nothing else in Persia touches. That is where the name comes from, and it is why a Bijar in a busy hallway looks the same in 40 years as it does the day it arrives.

Why Bijar Is Called the Iron Rug

Bijar is a Kurdish town in the highlands of northwestern Persia, and its weavers work by a method used nowhere else. The yarn is kept damp as the rug is made, and after every row the structure is beaten dense with a heavy metal comb, blow after blow, so the rug dries into something closer to armor than to fabric. Knot counts across this collection run from 280 up to 500 per square inch, and you can read how to judge that number in our KPSI guide.

That density is also why the range on this page is so hard to assemble. A Bijar takes longer to weave than almost anything else in Persia, so few weavers attempt the unusual formats, and almost no dealer is willing to tie up capital in a square, an 8x10 or a 13x15 that might sit for years. We buy them anyway, every time they surface.

The designs carry the same conviction: the small repeating world of the herati, called Mahi in the trade, anchored medallions, disciplined allover fields, on grounds of deep red, midnight blue and, in the rare examples below, ivory and gold. Almost all of them are built on the wool foundation that gives Bijar its weight. For the full story of the town, the technique and the sub-regions, read our complete guide to Bijar rugs.

The Collection, From 3 Feet to 20

What follows is a sample, not the whole warehouse. We have pulled 2 rugs from most sizes so you can walk the range in a few minutes, smallest to grandest, and there are more of nearly every size waiting in the full Bijar collection. Each photo links to that exact rug, photographed as it will arrive. Every one is one of a kind, so when it sells, it is gone forever.

3x5

Start where most homes start. Even at bedside scale a Bijar refuses to behave like a small rug: the 3x5 below carries an entire second rug drawn inside its own field, and its golden neighbor wears a color the Kurdish dye pots almost never release.

4x6

2 more from the small side of the racks, including a Bidjar knotted at a flat 400 KPSI, finer than most rugs 10 times its price.

4x7

The 4x7 shelf holds a surprise: next to a rose-bordered ivory floral sits a rug woven around 60 years ago that has never touched a floor. It waited 6 decades in storage for its first home.

5x8, the size between the sizes

This is the call we get at 11 at night. A room that a 5x8 leaves bare and a 6x9 swallows whole. Almost nobody weaves the in-between, and almost nobody stocks it.

Runners

Ask 10 dealers for a Bijar runner and 10 will tell you they can look. A runner in this construction is slow, heavy and expensive to weave, so the town makes very few and the trade almost never carries them. We keep them anyway. Here are 2 of ours, both long enough to take a real hallway end to end.

7x10

The 7x10 class is where Bijar earned its family-size reputation, and ours runs deep enough that these 2 are only the beginning of what the Bijar rug collection holds in this range.

8x10, a rare size in Bijar

The size most American rooms are built around is the size Bijar almost never made. We carry it in depth regardless. These 2 answer an 8x10 living room in opposite ways: one with no medallion at all, just an unbroken allover field, the other on a light ivory ground that brightens a room instead of anchoring it.

8x11

The 8x11 shelf. The one on the right is knotted wool on wool, the construction collectors call a tank, and after 3 generations of use it will still be one.

10x13

Into the large formats, where Bijar becomes genuinely scarce. One of these is pure geometry at 420-450 knots per square inch, the other carries highlights of silk through its wool pile.

10x14, a rare size anywhere on earth

A 10x14 Bijar is a rug most dealers will never handle in a career. We have more than one. Here are 2, both around 400 KPSI or above.

11x11, a square, which should not exist

Persian weavers almost never made squares. A square Bijar of this size is a unicorn of the trade, the kind of rug a dealer photographs for his own records because he will not see another.

13x13, and rarer still

A single 13-foot square Bijar is a career find for most dealers. We keep several, among them a genuine antique of roughly 75 years that has never been walked on. 2 of them are below.

13x15, the size nobody carries

Not 12x15, not 13x18. A true 13x15 oversize rug in Bijar, with an allover herati and no medallion to break it, is the kind of thing that turns up in auction catalogs once a decade.

13x20, and not just one

This is the part we are most serious about. Each of these covers roughly 255 square feet, took years on the frame, and weighs more than the person reading this. A single palace Bijar in stock is a headline for any dealer in the world. Here are 3 of ours, on the racks and ready to ship, the last a genuine antique with an open copper-red field, the kind of rug museums photograph and estates fight over.

The Selection Is the Reason for the Price

These are not 2 separate claims. They are the same one. We hold the widest range of Bijar in the world because we buy it in bulk at origin, and we can price it the way we do because we buy it in bulk at origin. A showroom that takes 4 rugs a season pays a middleman on every one of them and has to carry a year of rent and staff on those 4 sales, so the ticket goes where it goes. We commit to the whole run instead, from the 3x5 to the 13x20, we hold our own inventory, and there is nobody standing between the weaver and you. Our family has been buying that way since 1985.

Which is why the numbers land where they land. To be clear about what the comparison figures on this page are: they are not old Rugs.net prices we crossed out. They are what the same rug costs in the trade. The antique 13x13 square above is a $30,000 rug in a showroom and leaves here at $9,842. The grand square runs $45,000 elsewhere and is $19,380 from us. The 400 KPSI Bidjar is a $3,900 rug in the market and $1,132 on this page. Nothing here is discounted and nothing is on clearance. We set our number below the going rate and we keep it there, on every rug we own, not only the ones shown above.

We do it deliberately. Bijar is the finest wool rug ever made, close to indestructible, beautiful at every size, and the one rug we have never seen a customer regret. A rug that good should not be reserved for people willing to spend showroom money on it. Buying the whole run at origin is what lets us put it in reach of anyone who loves rugs, and that is the entire point of doing it this way.

If you ever find a comparable Bijar for less anywhere in the world, we beat that price by 10%. Email info@rugs.net. We mean it.

Delivered Like an Iron Rug Deserves

Bijars are the heaviest rugs made, and it changes nothing about what you pay. Shipping is free to all 50 states including Hawaii and Alaska, plus Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Canada. The oversize and palace rugs ship free too, with no freight surcharge at any weight. Order by 2 PM EST on a weekday and your rug leaves the same day by FedEx or UPS.

Past 150 lbs, which is where the palace weavings on this page live, a courier is no longer the right answer. Those we deliver ourselves, with our own drivers, handed to you at your door and never left at the curb. White glove delivery, carried in and placed in the room, is available by appointment. Returns run 31 days and are free from the mainland; return shipping from the islands is not free, and import taxes may apply outside the US.

The Whole Range, In Stock

Not a catalog of what we can order. Real Bijar on our racks right now, from a 3x5 bedside rug to a 13x20 palace weaving, squares, runners and odd sizes included, every one hand-knotted in Persia and one of a kind. The gallery above is a sample of it, 2 rugs from most sizes, and the collection behind it runs deeper in almost every one. If you want real Persian handmade Bijar in every size and shape there is, Rugs.net is basically the only place to find them, and buying them by the run is the only reason we can hand them to you well under showroom money.

Every rug leaves here with a certificate of authenticity, ships free, and comes back free for 31 days if it is not right. As for the rest, our customers say it better than we can, five stars on Google, every single review.

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