The Iranian National Carpet Museum

The Iranian National Carpet Museum
by Brian Appleton
16-May-2010
 

IN the summer of 2008, I spent the better part of a day in the carpet museum. There I saw the oldest carpet still in one piece in the world. It was 700 years old. I saw carpet styles no longer made like Tehrani carpets, Varamin carpets, fish design carpets, tree of life carpets, Balouchi pictorial rugs, Malayer Triclinium, Kashan Animal rugs, carpets with scenes from the Shahnameh...it was even more amazing than I had remembered...

One that was particularly curious and charming had the American presidents....

 

 

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comrade

The softer version, after the removal of my previous comment

by comrade on Mon May 17, 2010 03:31 PM PDT

I was hoping you'd notice the issue of "child labour". You failed. Maybe, next time, then.


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Brian Appleton

shall we celebrate nothing if it doesn't

by Brian Appleton on Sun May 16, 2010 12:42 PM PDT

honor the class struggle then? 

 

Brian H. Appleton

aka

Rasool Aryadust


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comrade

Thanks, brother Rasoul

by comrade on Sun May 16, 2010 11:36 AM PDT

Your joyful day at the museum, without a visit to a carpet weaving shop - where children as young as six, or seven years old are forced to work long hours- will never be completed.


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