A collection of carpets by prominent St. Louisan and entrepeneur James F. Ballard (1851-1931) is the subject of the current exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum. A collection of carpets by prominent ...

The carpet, woven in 1344 AH (1925 CE) by young female artists at a girls’ school during the late Qajar dynasty, was presented to the public in a ceremony attended by cultural officials and museum ...

Large Fragmentary Ushak Carpet with Quatrefoil Medallion, 16th century; Ottoman period, (1281–1924); wool; 119 x 90 ¼ inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1929. Belle Époque ...

Ashkan Agahzadeh has been around rugs his entire life. A native of Tehran, Iran, Ashkan spent his childhood watching his mother and aunt spend years hand-knotting tapestries and carpets. He, along ...

Intricately patterned Persian carpets are renowned the world over, with the Safavid period considered one of the high points of the art form. But because relatively fewer have survived, other textiles ...

Manila, Philippines – On 28 June, 2014, the Salcedo Institute of Art, with the support of Asia Society Philippines and ELLE Décor Philippines, hosted a specialist lecture on hand-knotted oriental ...

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TEHRAN, Iran – Now that President Donald Trump has chosen to withdraw the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, and reimpose sanctions, one industry in Iran is ...

Some entity called “Islamic culture”? A myth. “Christian culture”? Ditto. The medieval cult of the saints, polytheistic to the core, is as good an example of Christian “monotheism” as any. Papal ...

OAKLAND—Eminent art dealer Jan David Winitz, whose Claremont Rug Company specializes in art-level Oriental carpets from the “Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving,” has expanded and relocated his ...

A Persian rug sold for a record $33 million at auction. (Associated Press) An intricate, 17th century Persian carpet went up for sale at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday. When the gavel came down, ...