The field guide · Where it was woven
Lorestan لرستان
Lorestan, 'land of the Lurs', is a mountainous province of western Iran between Kermanshah and Khuzestan. Iranica records that the gabbeh is said to have originated there, around Khorramabad, Borujerd and Aligudarz, and spread to Kurdish and Qashqai weavers; Borujerd was already a named carpet centre in the nineteenth century.
Also Luristan · Lurestan · Borujerd · Boroujerd
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