Persian Carpets

Carpets, (qālī; Ar. and Pers. farš), heavy textiles are used as coverings for floors, walls, and other large surfaces, as well as for various kinds of furnishing.

Content

• i. Introductory Survey
• ii. Raw Materials and Dyes
• iii. Knotted-Pile Carpets: Techniques and Structures
• iv. Knotted-pile carpets. Designs, motifs, and patterns
• v. Flat-woven carpets. Techniques and structures
• vi. Pre-Islamic carpets
• vii. Islamic Persia to the Mongols
• viii. Il-khanid and Timurid periods
• ix. Safavid period
• x. Afsharid and Zand periods
• xi. Qajar period
• xii. Pahlavi period
• xiii. Post-Pahlavi period
• xiv. Tribal carpets (See also Baluchistan v. Baluch Carpets)
• xv. Caucasian Carpets
• xvi. Central Asian Carpets

Source

• Multiple Authors. "Carpets". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. IV, Fasc. 8, p. 834.

External links

Encyclopædia Iranica