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Kashan
Silk Souf early 20th lot 360 |
Kashan Rugs and Carpets
Kashan is noted for the use of silk. All silk
rugs are common and silk and metal rugs are not
unheard of. Silk highlights are less common and a
silk foundation with wool pile is unusual.
"Mohtashem" Kashan rugs are generally
wool with magenta or lavender silk selvages.
- Silk
Kashan Rug 18th or early 19th c. Rippon
Boswell
- "Mohtashem" Kashan rugs A key
identifier to the attribution is magenta
silk selvages
- Souf
- A
Silk and Metal-Thread Souf Kashan
Prayer Rug Circa 1920 lot 4
- Sotheby's
Kashan Silk Souf early 20th lot
360
- A
Kashan silk souf rug, Central
Persia, C. 1920 lot 143
- A
Kashan souf rug, Central Persia,
early 20th century lot 42
- A
Kashan silk and metal-thread souf
rug, Central Persia, circa 1900
lot 3
- A
Kashan Mohtashem Souf Prayer Rug,
Central Persia, circa 1900 lot 1
- A
Kashan Silk Souf Meditation Rug,
Central Persia, circa 1920 lot 95
- Silk
Kashan Prayer Rug circa 1920 Lot 3
- Silk
Kashan Prayer Rug Early 20th C. Lot 84
- Sotheby's
Kashan silk rug C. 1900 lot 31
- Sotheby's
A silk Kashan pictorial rug c. 1900 lot
248
- The
James M. Keshishian Silk Kashan Rug Circa
1920
- Sotheby's
A Kashan Silk Carpet C. 1920 lot 49
- Sotheby's
Kashan carpet w/ silk first quarter 20th
C. lot 82
- Sotheby's
silk Kashan carpet first quarter 20th C.
lot 92
- Sotheby's
A Kashan Silk Carpet C. 1920 lot 49
- Silk
Kashan carpet C. 1920 lot 39
- Imitation Silk
Sino-Kashan Carpet
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Nain Rugs and Carpets
Prior to W.W.II Nain produced
Isfahan type rugs. mid 20th century Nain began to
make distinctive carpets which were sold as Nain.
Generally finer than Isfahan with wool pile with
silk highlights on a cotton foundation. All silk
Nains are unusual.
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Nain
part-silk carpet, mid 20th c.
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Ghom
silk rug, C.1950
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Qum Rugs and Carpets
The holy city of Qum is a center of Shia
theology and carpet weaving
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Northwest Persian Trans-Caucasian
This bag is from the Moghan Sabalan region
that straddles the Iran Azerbaijan border. It has
polychrome silk highlights.
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Mashhad
Saber of Mashhad are made with a
one-inch silk flatweave around the carpet as well
as wool and silk pile.
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