Description & Technical information

Yazd is an elegant city along the Dasht-e-Kavir desert, on the road from Isfahan to Kerman. It was well known for cotton and silk textiles and started later to produce carpets, a little bit in the style of Kerman, but mostly not as tightly knotted.

Date:  Beginning of XX century
Period:  20th century
Origin:  Iran
Medium: warp and weft: silk
Dimensions: 175 x 165 cm (68⁹/₁₀ x 64⁰/₁ inches)
Categories: Textiles