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Central Persia Isfahan, Nain, Kashan Ghom (or Qum) Shahr Kord ( Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiari ) Tehran, Varamin |
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The carpet weaving area of central Persia contains the province of Ghom in the north and Isfahan in the south. It is bordered in the west by Saruq and Mahallat, to the south-west by the areas of Bakhtiari settlement and to the south by the Zagros and Kuhrud mountains. The huge salt desert penetrates deep into this central Persian region from the east. Of all the carpet producing areas of Persia, this is the oldest and richest. Here on the western edge of the Dasht-e Kavir desert, colors and shapes of unique beauty await us. Here in the heart of Persia one is confronted at every turn with the millennia of secular and religious history that finds its expression in art and culture and is interwoven with the development of the Oriental carpet. Ancient centers of carpet weaving, such as Isfahan and Kashan, which for centuries have given the world the noblest of carpets, and which perhaps were even involved in the birth of the Oriental carpet, lie side by side with the new provenances founded in this century such as Ghom and Nain. Compared with the carpet weaving regions of western Persia, the number of well known provenances is small but these few impel their entire artistic creativity into the composition of the Oriental carpet.
The small weaving villages such as Aliabad, Bardeh, Bola, Feraida, Fin,
Hori, Paradombeh, Ghamsar, Shalamzar and Vazvan, to name just a few,
supply goods to the bazaars and workshops of the major provenances; Bakhtiar, Isfahan,
Joshagan, Kashan, Meimeh, Nain, Ghom and Yazd. |
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