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Hello, This is my favorite Isfahan. I had
the chance to have this one for a while and it
was a very special rug. If we judge Isfahan by
knot count alone the we lose the artistic
quality. Beauty must come before structure. I had
a young fellow young fellow working for me who
had a heck of a time counting the knots if the
count was over 20 by 20 to the inch. He counted
this one at 20 by 21 and I suspect he was a
little low. However this is not the finest by a
long shot, I have seen them up to 26 by 26. But
the count is not the point look at the way the
flowers frame the palmette. Look at the three
plane interplay in the cloudband.
I need to spend more time on the question
"Is the rug Beautiful?". History has a
place and ethnographic significance is worth
considering, we can count knots, and we can study
structure but in the long rug the most important
question remains, "Is the rug
Beautiful?"
Best wishes,
Barry
See: The
Cloudband Serafian
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