WikiRug:Featured Article/2019/52

Nain is a town located in the Isfahan Province of central Iran. In the second quarter of the twentieth century, a number of families from Nain started producing rugs with ISFAHAN patterns. Prior to this there was no commercial carpet industry in Nain. The famous Nain master weaver HABIBIAN made the highest-quality rugs using a four- or six-ply warp. His carpets are signed “Habibian," in Farsi, and are considered valuable today. With the growing demand, Nain manufacturers began to produce and market nine-ply and twelveply carpets starting in the last quarter of the twentieth century. They were made for lower-budget consumers with the same coloration and designs, but in a good to very good grade quality. During this period, carpet producers in the town of Nain and the surrounding area were not able to handle the volume of requests of the world market, and Nain carpet producers began to establish looms in other Iranian provinces such as KHORASAN, SHAHR KURD BAKHTIARI, YAZD, and many other locations to weave Nain style carpets mostly in nine-and twelve-ply qualities to meet the increasing demand. (Full article...)