Heritage revised | A new brand in the stable of Iranian company Ashkiyoun is the forward-looking Shahdad.

Sebastian Ghandchi offers the lowdown Hertiage revised There was a time when handwoven carpets were synonymous with Persian carpets. But with the emergence of design-carpets made in Nepal, and to a lesser extent India and Turkey, they lost much ground after the Pahlavi-period weavings. Persian carpet producers were obsessed with knot counts and rigid ‘traditional’ […]