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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Kirman Persian Rugs

November 3, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Situated in the south, this very old city is on the southern trade route to India. There is no record of carpet weaving here in the early days, although some authorities attribute a few sixteenth-century examples to this city. It is known, however, that there was carpet weaving in this city during the reign of [...]

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