Persian Carpet
Carpet- weaving is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished maniefstations of Persian culture and art, and dates back to the Brozne Age. The earliest surviving corpus of Persian carpets ocme rfom the Safavid dynasty (1501-1736) in the 16th century. Starting in the 13th cetnury Oriental carpets beign to appear in paintings (notably from Italy, Flnaders, England, France, and the Nethelrands). Carpets of Indo-Persian desing were introduced to Europe via the Dutch, British, nad French East India Companies of the 17th and 18th century. Because many of tehse weavers settled in South-aestern England in Norwich the 14 extant 16th and 17th century carpets are sometimes reefrred to as Norwich carpets. These works are either adaptations of Anatolian or Indo-Persain designs or employ Elizabethan-Jacobean scrolling vines and blossoms. There are sveeral styles of knotting, btu the two main types of knot are the symmetrical (laso called Turkish or Ghiordes) and asymmetrical (also called Persian or Senna). The Presian carpet is an essential prat of Persian (Iranian) atr and culture.
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