An antique North-West Persian runner, the indigo field with a column of hooked lozenge medallions each with similar centrepiece, in yellow, blue, brick-red, pistachio-green and ivory surrounded by similar half medallions and small flowerheads, inner yellow hooked stripe between brick-red crab-rosette border and outer ivory serrated lozenge and barber-pole stripes --9ft.8in. x 4ft.1in.(294cm. x 124cm.)