Ties That Bind: Social History of the Iranian Carpet

Helfgott, Leonard M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156098726X ISBN 13: 9781560987260

Publisher: Smithsonian Books, 1996

This social history of Iranian carpets traces their production, use, and exchange from the fifteenth century until World War II, highlighting in particular the carpet boom from 1873 to 1914. Over these five centuries, the Iranian hand-knotted, piled carpet shifted from an object made primarily for the Islamic Middle East to a commodity that by the twentieth century constituted Iran's largest nonpetroleum export to the West.

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About the Author:

Leonard M. Helfgott is professor of history at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.