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.