Technique: Handknotted
Origin: Iran
Age: New
Welft: Cotton
Warp: Cotton
Vello: Wool and silk
Tabriz is a city of ancient origins that for centuries has of a high reputation as center of the oriental culture, but it is in the Middle Ages that the maximum development of the arts was had. Miniaturists of manuscripts, embroiderers of silk, court painters and carvers influenced in equal measure on operates of weavers of rugs that created real objets d'arts. This is one of the thinnest rugs that exist in the Persian tradition, knotted in wool and silk. 60 rags means 60 knots every 7 cm.