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Iranian (Persian) Art And Hadicrafts (Part 2)

by Majid H. Mohajerani

Iranian (Persian) Art And Hadicrafts

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- Carpets
- History of Iranian carpets begins…
- 2500 years ago!
- In 1949 the oldest known "knotted" carpet
- was discovered in the Pazyryk valley
- It was found preserved in the frozen tombs of Scythian chiefs and is 2400 to 2500 years old.
Scythian nomads used carpets
- … and so did Achemenians
- But the first evidence on the existence of carpets, came from Chinese texts dating back to the Sassanid Dynasty (AD 224 - 641).
- Perhaps the most important time in the history of Persian carpets came with the accession to power of the Safavid rulers (1499 - 1722).
- Approximately 1500 examples are preserved in various museums and in private collections world-wide.
- Turkish knot
Persian knot