WikiRug:Featured Article/2023/8

Persian carpets that can be indisputably identified a having been produced in the 8-9th/14-15th centuries are virtually nonexistent. One fragment of a pile carpet in the Benaki Museum in Athens has recently been attributed to “Iran or Central Asia” in the 9th/15th century, though the reasons for this attribution are not clear. It is made entirely of wool and measures 14 x 22". Many features of the design link it to Anatolian Saljuq and “Holbein” rugs dated between the 7th/13th and the early 10th/16th centuries.
That carpets were used and produced in Persia in the 8-9th/14-15th centuries has nonetheless been inferred from written sources, both contemporary and slightly earlier.(Full article...)