January 28, 2010 – 12:33 pm
This purely European country, but with a history of Moorish rule for some hundreds of years, warrants a place in any volume of Oriental rug art for two reasons. The first is that here was the gateway through which the Oriental rug became Europeanized. That is to say, the original Oriental designs copied by the [...]
January 23, 2010 – 12:29 pm
The mere geographical position of this city ensured for it an importance above the average. Situated in the north-west corner of Persia it is the gateway to Turkey in the west and Caucasia in the north, well-placed as a trading centre during peacetime and a very important bastion in wartime. During the eleventh century when [...]
January 12, 2010 – 12:24 pm
As far as is known, carpets were not actually made in India until the time of the Empire of the Great Moguls in the sixteenth century, although before this they had been imported from Persia, particularly from Kirman, which is not surprising when it is considered that Kirman was the last large Persian city on [...]