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Mashhad/Mashad
rugs fit into my "Persian Rugs the O'Connell
Guides" section type of rugs of Northeat
Iran. These rug are predominantly woven by
weavers who speak Persian or Turki and who are
Shia Moslems. Mashhad, is the administrative
seat of Khorasan Razavi province. Mashhad Rugs /
Mashad Rugs are the best known of the Khorasan
Rugs. Carpet weaving in Khorasan predates the
Pazaryk carpet going back thousands of years. In
the late 1550s some of the most perfect rugs ever
woven were created in Khorasan. See The
Perez Topkapi Prayer Rug which is one group.
The greatest Mashhad workshop of all time was
that of Soltan Ibrahim Mirza. More recently
Mashad workshops included Amoghli
(Amu-oghli, Amoughli, Emoghli), Khamenei,
Makhmalbaf, Saber, and
Zarbaf.
Please visit Mashad-Rugs
on Squidoo
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The
Khorasan sickle-leaf design carpet fragment
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