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A modern Tabriz rug

A modern Tabriz rug

• ... Tabriz is probably the most prolific carpet-producing center in the world?
• ... the only rugs that can be compared with a fine Tabriz are Isfahans, Kashans, Kermans, Qums, and Nains?
• ... the finest examples of Traditional Floral rug designs, geometrical patterns, extremely elaborate famous fish designs, or fascinating pictorial wall hanging rugs can only be found among Tabriz Persian Rugs?

In the news

Istanbul Carpet Week 2019

Istanbul Carpet Week 2019

• 25-29 October 2019 | Istanbul Carpet Week 2019. The program includes 13th National Rug Design Contest, Exporters' Awards Ceremony, B2B meetings, Istanbul International Carpet Conference with international and Turkish speakers, Workshop by an international famous rug designer, Wall Art Kilim & Rug Exhibition at (Old City) Sultan Ahmet.
• 17-19 September 2019 | Index Exhibition, the Middle East & North Africa’s largest gathering for the design community, takes place from 17-19 September at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
• 24-30 June 2019 | HALI London celebrates 40 years and 200 editions of HALI magazine, and is the first London festival devoted to the art and history of textiles.

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• Amir Hossein Afsari

On this day

February 5

The "Welcome Stranger" gold nugget

• AD 62 – Pompeii was severely damaged by a strong earthquake, which may have been a precursor to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the town 17 years later.
• 1869 – Prospectors in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, discovered the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the "Welcome Stranger" (pictured).
• 1917 – The U.S. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson's veto to pass the Immigration Act of 1917, establishing new restrictions on immigrants, including the wholesale ban of people from much of Asia.
• 1941 – Second World War: British and Free French forces began the Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian Eritrea.
• 2009 – The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal ran aground on a coral reef off the island of Oahu.

C. E. Brock (b. 1870) · Josiah Thomas (d. 1933) · Neymar (b. 1992)

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