Antique Golden Manchester Kashan Carpet, The Finest, 10' x 14'

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Antique Golden Manchester Kashan Carpet, The Finest, 10' x 14', c-1910, Super fine antique handmade Manchester wool Kashan carpet, A master piece in rare gold background color with allover traditional floral design, This antique carpet is in secured sides and ends and full high pile of natural dyed soft wool, it has been professionally cleaned.
All it's motives and coloring are absolutely indicate of one of the kind.
It's wool is soft and very pleasing.
It has made by early 1900's. It's motives and color are Persian Indo Kashan time.
Kashan was a center of silk production since Safavid times and some of the best classical Persian silk rugs have been attributed to Kashan. At the end of the nineteenth century the weavers there began to produce high quality rugs and carpets as well,
Kashan, located in the province of Isfahan, Iran, is an oasis village on the western edge of the Great Salt Desert (Dasht-e Kavir). It lies approximately 3000 feet above sea level in the eastern Zagros Mountains north of Kerman.
Kahsan rugs uses the asymmetrical or Persian knot. Safavid-period Kashan carpets were often silk, with gold and silver threads woven into the designs. Animal scenes and gardens were popular themes. In the later period, warp and weft were usually cotton. Double wefts create an effect of depressed knots.