Friday, November 21, 2003
Guide to Hamadan Rugs:
"Hamadan rugs typically have one heavy cotton shot of weft (single wefted) and are made with thick high quality wool. Coarsely woven but substantial rugs.
There are a number of village and Kurdish rugs that are sold as Hamadan rugs.
According to Leslie Stroh of Rug News there are 1500 villages in the Hamadan area that each produced about 2 designs so that there were 3000 different types of Hamadan rugsat the height of OCM's business in Hamadan.
Hamadan Type Weaving Centers
Alamdar, Borchalu, Borujerd, Chenar, Darjazin, Enjilas, Hosseinabad or Hussainabad, Kalajak, Karaghosli, Khamseh, Kolyai, Lilihan, Malayer, Maslaghan, Mehraban, Nehavend, Rudbar, Sard Rud, Saveh, Shirishabad, Tajiabad, Tafresh, Taleghan, Tuisarkhan, and Zanjan."
"Hamadan rugs typically have one heavy cotton shot of weft (single wefted) and are made with thick high quality wool. Coarsely woven but substantial rugs.
There are a number of village and Kurdish rugs that are sold as Hamadan rugs.
According to Leslie Stroh of Rug News there are 1500 villages in the Hamadan area that each produced about 2 designs so that there were 3000 different types of Hamadan rugsat the height of OCM's business in Hamadan.
Hamadan Type Weaving Centers
Alamdar, Borchalu, Borujerd, Chenar, Darjazin, Enjilas, Hosseinabad or Hussainabad, Kalajak, Karaghosli, Khamseh, Kolyai, Lilihan, Malayer, Maslaghan, Mehraban, Nehavend, Rudbar, Sard Rud, Saveh, Shirishabad, Tajiabad, Tafresh, Taleghan, Tuisarkhan, and Zanjan."
Notes on Bakshaish Rugs and Carpets:
"Bakshaish Persian Carpets
The Heriz area has gone through a number of name changes over the years. At one point the region was known as the Khanate of Serab. After that the region was called Bakshaish. It is possible that the town of Bakshaish was the administrative center of the District. It is also possible that the district and the region takes it name from a person or group of people.
Heinrich Jacoby the great German Rug Expert wrote in 1949 that Heriz rugs and Bakshaish rugs could be distinguished from similar rugs elsewhere in Persia by their 'soft coloring' which he attributed to the local water. It is very possible that the coloration is influenced by the copper in the ground water in the greater Heriz region. Jacoby also mentioned that Gorevans and Bakshaish carpets were coarser than Heriz and that they had large wefts almost the size of the warps but Heriz used thick warps with much thinner wefts. "
"Bakshaish Persian Carpets
The Heriz area has gone through a number of name changes over the years. At one point the region was known as the Khanate of Serab. After that the region was called Bakshaish. It is possible that the town of Bakshaish was the administrative center of the District. It is also possible that the district and the region takes it name from a person or group of people.
Heinrich Jacoby the great German Rug Expert wrote in 1949 that Heriz rugs and Bakshaish rugs could be distinguished from similar rugs elsewhere in Persia by their 'soft coloring' which he attributed to the local water. It is very possible that the coloration is influenced by the copper in the ground water in the greater Heriz region. Jacoby also mentioned that Gorevans and Bakshaish carpets were coarser than Heriz and that they had large wefts almost the size of the warps but Heriz used thick warps with much thinner wefts. "
Guide to Sarouk Rugs & Carpets:
"The American Sarouk
With the loss of the European market in W.W.I the market shifted to a rug called The American Sarouk . As Cecil Edwards told us in The Persian Carpet The American Sarouk had certain distinctive characteristics that made it popular: P. R. J. Ford suggests that the American Sarouk was originally produced by Mr. S. Tyriakian the Arak representative of K. S. Taushandjian of New York in the early 1920s1."
"The American Sarouk
With the loss of the European market in W.W.I the market shifted to a rug called The American Sarouk . As Cecil Edwards told us in The Persian Carpet The American Sarouk had certain distinctive characteristics that made it popular: P. R. J. Ford suggests that the American Sarouk was originally produced by Mr. S. Tyriakian the Arak representative of K. S. Taushandjian of New York in the early 1920s1."
Persian Carpets
