Antique Qashqai Rug 5'4'' x 8'3''. This southwest Persian Khamseh tribal confederation scatter shows a deep blue field with three columns of eight hexagons with interior smaller hooked hexagons, all in shades of sand, red, rust, straw, salmon-rose and dark blue. Squares, small octagons and rosettes swim about. Multiple narrow borders with arrowhead and triangle chains, cross hatches and little triangular botehs. The Khamseh tribes are close neighbors of the Qashghai, but differ ethnically.