How a Carpet Cartoon Guides a Weaver: Isfahan and Tabriz
How does a rug design become instructions at the loom? See two documented ways that gridded plans, colour and yarn cards help weavers follow a pattern.
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Persian Hunting Carpets: The Art of the Chase
Mounted archers, fighting animals and flowering fields reveal how Persian artists turned the hunt into a patterned world, then reimagined it centuries later.