WikiRug:Featured Article/2023/6

Since 1966, when Hans Wulff wrote “There is no field in the industrial arts in Persia that is as important as carpet weaving, and yet little is known about its early development”, little new information has become available. Indeed, the evidence for textiles of all kinds in pre-Islamic Iran is very sparse. It is necessary to supplement the few remains of actual textiles with examination of representations in art and other kinds of indirect evidence of production, for example preserved impressions and pseudomorphs from excavations
By the late 2nd millennium b.c. cording was known; the technique was later used in the selvages of carpets. In the tombs at Marlik on the southwest Caspian coast, which date from this period or perhaps the beginning of the 1st millennium b.c., were found fragments of unidentified fabric, including cords and woven bands.(Full article...)