Rug weaving in Persia

The Persian country being ideal for the rearing of sheep, goats and camels, supplied abundant quantities of the best wool for textile purposes, while the inhabitants' knowledge of vegetable dyes, their inborn sense of design, colour and their weaving art, contributed to maintain the unquestioned supremacy of their product all over the world.

The rugs appreciated by each of the three classes of Persian society differed decisively.

Those made for the kings and princes were magnificent works of art, in most instances designed by the foremost painters of the day and constructed with the very finest materials obtainable.