Rug weaving in Bakhtiar was first introduced not more than one hundred and eighty years ago.

It would be better to explain that the rugs known as Bakhtiar are not the product of the nomadic tribesmen. These are rather woven by craftspeople of the cities and villages the Armenians and nomads who have settled in this area.

The quality and the weaving technique of Bakhtiar rugs vary from locality to locality. The knots are Ghiordes and the weft can be single or double, depending on the place where it's produced.

These rugs are relatively coarse and durable. However, one can also find decorative and beautiful carpets with interesting and pleasant designs made of natural and brilliant colors.

The dyers often prefer to use natural colors to dye the fibers of the rug. Their preference for the background is mostly red, blue, green, golden yellow, turquoise, dark blue, and brown.

Amongst a large variety of Bakhtiar designs, the one in particular that dominates is the mosaic design or repeated panels. In this type of rug, the field appears with a regular quadrangular and hexagon network.

Each of these panels contains different motifs, woven separately, such as the weeping willow tree, cypress tree, vases full of flowers, a bird on a branch, and the Botteh. In these panels, there is no similarity to each other neither design nor in colors.

Nowadays, in Qom, Birjand, and Tabriz, finer rugs are produced, imitating the original patterns of the Bakhtiar rugs.