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TWO IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING OLD INSCRIBED BAKHTIYARI ‘KHAN’ CARPETS FROM THE ARCHIVES

Over four decades of trading many old Bakhtiyari rugs and trappings have come and gone. Most often these were village production from the Chahar Mahal valley and many trappings from both Luri and Bakhtiyari nomadic tribal groups. Two outstanding carpets, however, have stood out as...

Almost coincidentally in the early 1980’s, an archive of textile history was discovered in Kent UK in a Victorian warehouse now demolished. This was the archival storage of the last remaining hand-block silk printer in London, David Evans and Co. (more…)...

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Materials

Carpets and kilims (flatweaves) usually have wool, or occasionally silk, as the fibre forming the pile and the pattern.  These are both animal fibres,...