Number 660
Type Workshop
Style All Over
Material Wool & Silk
Origin Tudeshk
Size 222 x 148
Age 1940
Tudeshk is a tiny village situated halfway along the 300 km long old Isfahan - Nain highway. During the second quarter of the 20th century carpets were made there that were markedly finer and more majestic than their legendary counterparts in Isfahan itself or Kashan. For a period of two decades or so some of the finest Persian carpets came out of Tudeshk. This ended when an earthquake struck in 1957 after which its weavers migrated to Nain and set up carpet production there.
This magnificent carpet belongs to the middle period of Tudeshk weaving when they shifted to a denser knotting with higher knot count, and incorporated silk highlights. It is older than the later ones with whiter tonality.
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