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