Hamedan carpet

Description

Hamedan carpet
Size; 176 * 109
Gender; Wool and yarn
Hamedan is an old city with a very long history that goes back more than 2500 years. This city was once called Ekbatan and was the capital of the Medes. It is an almost mountainous and cold region.
The presence of green pastures and relatively abundant water shows the prosperity of animal husbandry and sheep farming. Of course, these climatic characteristics lead to the fact that the inhabitants of cold villages with long winters use handicrafts and handicrafts, especially carpets. The existence of professions such as felting, basket weaving, mat weaving, quilt weaving, quilt weaving and و also point to a kind of web boom.
Knots: Almost without exception, the carpets of the Hamedan province are woven with Turkish knots, as most of the inhabitants of this province with more than a hundred villages speak Turkish, but Persian knots are also common.
With a few exceptions, the thousands of carpets made in the villages of Hamedan are all woven from the same fabric as the carpet weavers of the Baluch and Northern Khorasan tribes, and the Afshari tribes of Kerman and the Persian tribes.