Tehran Persian Carpet

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Tehran persian carpet.

Persian carpets are well known all around the world and this museum offers the rare and exciting opportunity to visit and appreciate them in their country of origin. Within the group of oriental rugs produced by the countries of the rug belt the persian carpet stands out by the variety and elaborateness of its manifold designs. The shades of the orient are taken from nature and woven into pieces that speak to the magnificence and success of old persia. Best wool yarn is knotted by hand and tied in long periods of manual work to rugs that can scarcely be found anyplace else on the planet.

Carpet weaving is an essential part of persian culture and iranian art. However while traditional rugs have been woven in a variety of styles throughout persia for centuries and centuries tehran itself only became a center of antique rug production after the great revival of persian weaving was underway in the late nineteenth. Rare pair persian wool tehran carpets. Famed for the beauty of their patterns their intricately woven colors durability and the years of.

In the persian empire kashan was considered one of the most important trading places on the famous silk road which still exists today. Some very big carpet dealer are based in tehran. It is certainly worth buying it inside in iran cuz the copies of persian carpet are now produced in different neighboring countries and it is impossible for non expert to distinguish it from real persian ones. In the context of persian rugs this implies.

360 810 x 58 persian kerman wool rug. Tehran is the capital of iran the country historically referred to as persia and the greatest carpet producing country in the world. The museum s exhibition hall occupies 3 400 square meters 36 597 ft and its library contains approximately 7 000 books. Carpet museum of iran tehran located in tehran beside laleh park and founded in 1976 the carpet museum of iran exhibits a variety of persian carpets from all over iran dating from the 16th century to the present.

Genuine carpets from iran formerly known as persia are treasured by collectors world wide. 359 125 x 92 persian kerman wool rug. One of the most famous persian carpets of all the ardebil rug in the victoria and albert museum in london is said to have been knotted here in this city between isfahan and tehran. 69 antique silk and wool tehran persian rug carpet 3.