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๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐’๐ข๐ฅ๐ค ๐…๐š๐ซ๐š๐ก๐š๐ง

  • Number SOLD

  • Type Workshop

  • Material Silk

  • Style Geometric

  • Origin Farahan

  • Size 119 x 90

  • Age 1807

Story

Exquisite and excellent. This silk is a treasure. It is the oldest known silk lattice carpet of the type that became famous on silk Mohtasham Kashans over a half century later. To say museum quality would be a disservice to its crazy charms.

The quality of the natural dye materials is breathtaking: the cochineal purple, the denim-faded sky blue, the stunning apricot and saffron yellow, and those unparalleled browns.

The central compartment bears a verse of poetry from the Diwan of the great 13th century poet Saadi of Shiraz. In elegant Nastaliq script we read the following from Ghazal no.226:

ุจุณุงุท ุณุจุฒู‡ ู„ฺฏุฏูƒูˆุจ ุดุฏ ุจูพุงู‰ ู†ุดุงุท
ุฒ ุจุณูƒู‡ ุนุงุฑู ูˆ ุนุงู…ู‰ ุจุฑู‚ุต ุจุฑุฌุณุชู†ุฏ

๐™๐™๐™š ๐™œ๐™ง๐™š๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™ง๐™ช๐™œ ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ ๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™š๐™™ ๐™–๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™—๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™›๐™š๐™š๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ง๐™œ๐™ฎ
๐™„๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ช๐™œ๐™ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ณ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐—”๐—บ๐—บ๐—ถ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™™๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š

(Arif= literally those who know ie who posses mystical knowledge;

Ammi= member of the general public ie someone without secret knowledge.)

Below that is a date, 1222 Hijri.

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