WikiRug:Featured Article/2020/30

The Kashan name is important in the carpet weaving world. Carpets from this city are known in the market from the sixteenth century during the Safavid Dynasty period. Kashan carpets are floral in pattern, with very fine detail and high quality, in either a medallion or allover style. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Kashan carpets with silk foundations and silk piles as well as cotton foundations and wool piles were made in Shah Abbas designs, with palmettes, leaves, and vines perfectly set in the background and borders. Other designs such as animals or Hunting patterns were displayed in the field; at times poems were woven in the borders. These truly magical weavings are considered important artworks and are in museums worldwide.(Full article...)