About Persian Isfahan Carpet
Persian Isfahan Carpet captures the peak of Safavid royal weaving — a central diamond medallion radiating sixteen pendants, quartered corner spandrels, and twelve border-bands of palmette-arabesque scrollwork at 800 knots per inch. The Ardabil Carpet at the V&A is its canonical voice.
This system speaks in saturated natural-dye jewel-tones bounded by cream-ivory hairline scrollwork. Deep midnight-blue grounds carry golden-saffron medallions, emerald-jade scrollwork, and crimson cartouches. Symmetry is strict; density is horror-vacui; every surface is a calligraphic garden.
- Origin
- Persia / Iran — Isfahan, Tabriz, Kashan, Kerman, Qom
- Era
- Safavid era 1501–1736 (peak under Shah Abbas I, 1588–1629); continued through Qajar + Pahlavi + modern Iranian production
- Key figures
- Shah Abbas I · Maqsud Kashani · Sheila Canby · Jon Thompson
- Movements
- Safavid Persianate visual culture · Islamic geometric + biomorphic ornament · 19c Oriental Carpet boom
Persian Isfahan Carpet design spec
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