The field guide · Where it was woven
Kashan کاشان
Kashan is a desert city in central Iran with a long record of fine weaving: silk carpets and silk kilims are credited to it in the Safavid period, and a large commercial production of wool and silk pile carpets began there in the early twentieth century. Kashan carpets are asymmetrically knotted on cotton or silk foundations, depending on the pile fibre.
Also Keshan · Kāshān
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