18 Facts About Persian carpet

Persian carpet or Persian rug, known as Iranian carpet, is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in Iran, for home use, local sale, and export.

In 2010, the "traditional skills of Persian carpet weaving" in Fars Province and Kashan were inscribed to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.

Pazyryk Persian carpet was excavated in 1949 from the grave of a Scythian nobleman in the Pazyryk Valley of the Altai Mountains in Siberia.

The advanced technique used in the Pazyryk Persian carpet indicates a long history of evolution and experience in weaving.

The high artistic level reached by Persian weavers is further exemplified by the report of the historian Al-Tabari about the Spring of Khosrow carpet, taken as booty by the Arabian conquerors of Ctesiphon in 637 AD.

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Persian carpet ordered the floors of his residence to be covered with carpets from Fars.

Persian carpet described that in Timur's palace at Samarkand, "everywhere the floor was covered with carpets and reed mattings".

Persian carpet is regarded as the first national sovereign of Persia since the Arab conquest, and established Shi'a Islam as the state religion of Persia.

In 1722, Peter the Great launched the Russo-Persian carpet War, capturing many of Iran's Caucasian territories, including Derbent, Shaki, Baku, but Gilan, Mazandaran and Astrabad.

Persian carpet defeated the Afghans, and Ottomans, reinstalled the Safavids on the throne, and negotiated Russian withdrawal from Irans Caucasian territories, by the Treaty of Resht and Treaty of Ganja.

Persian carpet established a constitutional monarchy that lasted until the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

The revival of Persian carpet weaving, often referring to traditional designs, was an important part of these efforts.

The centuries-old traditions of nomadic Persian carpet weaving, which had entered a process of decline with the introduction of synthetic dyes and commercial designs in the late nineteenth century, were almost annihilated by the politics of the last Iranian imperial dynasty.

The lowest grade of wool used in Persian carpet weaving is "skin" wool, which is removed chemically from dead animal skin.

Higher grades of Persian carpet wool are often referred to as kurk, or kork wool, which is gained from the wool growing on the sheep's neck.

The main fields of Persian carpet rugs are frequently filled with redundant, interwoven ornaments, often in form of elaborate spirals and tendrils in a manner called infinite repeat.

In contrast to Anatolian rugs, the Persian carpet medaillon represents the primary pattern, and the infinite repeat of the field appears subordinate, creating an impression of the medaillon "floating" on the field.

Iran's Persian carpet exports amounted to US$635 million in 2004, according to the figures from the state-owned Iran Carpet Company.