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Shiraz Rugs

The city of Shiraz is the seat of Fars Province in southwestern Persia and has been an urban center since at least the first millennium B.C.E. While nearby Persepolis (“City of the Persians”) was the ceremonial and administrative royal capital under the Achaemenid Dynasty, Shiraz, the city of roses and nightingales, has been more oriented toward the arts and commerce. It was briefly the capital of Persia under the Zand Dynasty in the second half of the 18th century. The famous Persian poets Hafiz and Sa’adi both worked in Shiraz in the medieval period.

Shiraz is the center of a large, semi-arid region with numerous migratory and semi-migratory tribes dependent on a pastoral economy. Where there are sheep, there are rugs. The two main tribal groups are the Turkic Qashqai tribe, still mostly seasonally nomadic, and the somewhat more settled Khamseh Confederation of Turkic, Persian, and Arab tribes. The Khamseh Confederation was created in the 19th century as a political balance to the Qashqai. Both groups weave pile rugs with primarily all-wool construction. The Qashqai also weave slit-tapestry technique kilims. The more mobile Qashqai live in black goat-hair tents floored with kilims and simple, geometric Gabbeh pile rugs. The more settled Khamseh tend to live in [...]

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No. 32317
Persia, Early 20th Century
5 ft. x 7 ft. 1 in.
1.52 m x 2.16 m
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No. 31777
Persia, Mid-20th Century
3 ft. 10 in. x 5 ft. 6 in.
1.17 m x 1.68 m
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No. 24340
Persia, Mid-20th Century
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0.25 m x 0.30 m
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No. 24343
Persia, Mid-20th Century
10 in. x 10 in.
0.25 m x 0.25 m
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No. 27349
Persia, Mid-20th Century
9 in. x 2 ft. 1 in.
0.23 m x 0.64 m
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No. 24015
Persia, Mid-20th Century
9 in. x 10 in.
0.23 m x 0.25 m
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No. 28081
Persia, Mid-20th Century
9 in. x 9 in.
0.23 m x 0.23 m
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No. 27520
Persia, Mid-20th Century
8 in. x 1 ft. 3 in.
0.20 m x 0.38 m
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No. 28241
Persia, 21st Century
1 ft. 11 in. x 2 ft. 7 in.
0.58 m x 0.79 m
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No. 31398
Persia, Mid-20th Century
3 ft. 7 in. x 5 ft. 1 in.
1.09 m x 1.55 m
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No. 32278
Persia, Early 20th Century
6 ft. 10 in. x 8 ft. 9 in.
2.08 m x 2.67 m
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No. 29477
Persia, 21st Century
2 ft. 3 in. x 2 ft. 8 in.
0.69 m x 0.81 m
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4 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 5 in.
1.30 m x 1.96 m
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4 ft. 1 in. x 5 ft. 7 in.
1.24 m x 1.70 m
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3 ft. 11 in. x 6 ft. 7 in.
1.19 m x 2.01 m
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3 ft. 11 in. x 6 ft.
1.19 m x 1.83 m
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3 ft. 9 in. x 6 ft. 7 in.
1.14 m x 2.01 m
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No. 31003
Persia, Early 20th Century
7 ft. 1 in. x 10 ft. 3 in.
2.16 m x 3.12 m
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1 ft. 10 in. x 1 ft. 11 in.
0.56 m x 0.58 m
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4 ft. 2 in. x 6 ft.
1.27 m x 1.83 m
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No. 29864
Persia, Mid-20th Century
5 ft. 3 in. x 7 ft.
1.60 m x 2.13 m
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5 ft. 2 in. x 5 ft. 6 in.
1.57 m x 1.68 m
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No. 28086
Persia, Mid-20th Century
4 ft. 9 in. x 7 ft. 3 in.
1.45 m x 2.21 m
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1 ft. 11 in. x 4 ft.
0.58 m x 1.22 m
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4 ft. 10 in. x 6 ft. 10 in.
1.47 m x 2.08 m
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5 ft. 1 in. x 7 ft. 4 in.
1.55 m x 2.24 m
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No. 31215
Persia, Early 20th Century
7 ft. x 9 ft. 9 in.
2.13 m x 2.97 m
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No. 30012
Persia, Mid-20th Century
5 ft. 8 in. x 6 ft. 7 in.
1.73 m x 2.01 m
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No. 25634
Persia, Mid-20th Century
11 in. x 11 in.
0.28 m x 0.28 m
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No. 26503
Persia, Early 20th Century
3 ft. 5 in. x 4 ft. 9 in.
1.04 m x 1.45 m
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