Monthly Archives: November 2008

Heriz and Ghorovan Rugs

November 3, 2008 – 12:08 pm

From these two towns between Tabriz and the west coast of the Caspian Sea, and their immediate surroundings, come the unmistakable types of carpets known the world over by these names. They are of coarse weave, but extremely tough, usually with centre medallion designs, very angular, in shades of rust or rusty red. These towns [...]

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Meshed and Herat Persian Rugs

November 3, 2008 – 12:06 pm

If it can be said that Tabriz is situated at the crossroads of the west, Meshed occupies the same position in the east. The political capital of Persia for a brief period in the eighteenth century, it has for centuries been the religious capital and a centre of pilgrimage for the whole country, for here [...]

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Kashan Persian Rugs

November 3, 2008 – 12:03 pm

This city has as good a claim as any of the places where the Ardebil and other carpets of the same period might have been made. It is known that carpets and other textiles were woven here in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Maksoud, whose name graces the inscription on the Ardebil carpet, came [...]

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