Financial Tribune - The Wagner Garden Carpet - a late 17th-century Persian carpet never before seen in the US - is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in a special exhibition titled Eternal Springtime: A Persian Garden Carpet from the Burrell Collection.
It is on loan from the Burrell Collection Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. ...
Tasnim - Persian Gabbeh is a hand-knotted (handmade) thick Persian rug with long pile. It is made by the nomads of Fars province in southern Iran, of which the famous city of Shiraz is the capital.
The most famous nomad group of this region is the Qashqai Tribe. Although the existing few old pieces of Gabbeh rugs are not more than 100 years old,...
Press TV | Arghavan Shamsara: Persian carpet has been considered as a sublime embodiment of timeless beauty and elegance over thousands of years in human history and it has constantly evolved into a more elegant artistic creation throughout its existence.
The artistic creation reached its zenith during the rule of Safavid Dynasty (15011736) when ...
IRNA - Head of the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization (RICHT) Seyed Mohammad Beheshti said carpets woven in Europe and other countries are indicative of the influence of the Iranian culture and cultural transactions with other nations, the RICHT website reported.
The fact that today we are unaware of carpet-weaving ...
TEHRAN, Feb. 25 (MNA) China, which used to be Irans rival in worlds carpet market, has now become one of the ten major importers of hand-woven Persian carpet, head of Iran National Carpet Center (INCC) said Thursday.
Hamid Kargar added that the export value of hand-woven Persian carpet to China has increased from $8,000 to $8 million in the ...
Tehran, Nov 17, IRNA Despite domestic issues and international barriers to trading Iranian hand-woven carpets, Persian rugs are still frontrunners in the global market, according to the head of Irans National Carpet Center, Hamid Kargar.
Iran accounts for more than 30% of global carpet trade and its rivals, including India, Pakistan and Turkey,...
TEHRAN -- The engraving artworks in Iran are just as exquisite and unique as Persian carpet, art expert and researcher Mohammad Hassan Golchinpur said on Sunday.
Golchinpur made the remarks as he attended a ceremony during which his bilingual book Irans Art of Engraving: Icons of Today, Legends of Tomorrow was unveiled.
The book, which is in ...
Iran is set to publish Persian Carpet Encyclopedia, head of Iran Carpet Association, Amir Hossein Chitsazian, has announced.
The encyclopedia is programmed to be released next calendar year (which starts in March 2015), Chitsazian said.
The book will focus on designs, patterns and aesthetics, technical knowledge, management, economics and trade,...
TEHRAN, Nov. 11 (MNA) Carpet-weaving is one of the most distinguished manifestations of Persian culture and art, and dates back to ancient Persia. Iran exports carpets to more than 100 countries, as hand-woven rugs are one of its main non-oil export items
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An Iranian filmmaker has made a documentary on a unique Persian carpet, displayed annually during a traditional Japanese festival, Gion Matsuri, in Kyoto.
Directed by Irans woman filmmaker Masoumeh Nourmohammadi, the documentary was shot in three cities including Kyoto in Japan as well as Tehran and Isfahan in Iran.
The carpet which is a symbol ...
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