Hand woven with the finest materials including wool and silk, a single Persian rug can often take years and sometimes decades to create. A high-quality Iranian carpet can cost tens of thousands of ...

With fewer tourists coming and increasing difficulties in making international transactions, the centuries old market for ...

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The event featured an elegant display of Malaysia’s Songket and Batik fabrics alongside Iran’s famed Persian rugs, highlighting the craftsmanship and historical significance of these art forms. In his ...

Stopping for the night, the Zamani family shares a meal laid out on colorful rugs ... Iranian kings. “We are descendants of the great Kourosh Kabir,” he said, meaning the legendary Persian ...

We were able to eliminate a couple of contenders immediately: one rug that felt more like a dish towel, and another that looked like a thin, faded ghost of a Persian rug. We set the rest up in the ...

“The Woven Sounds” concert, featuring traditional Persian tunes performed by Mehdi ... who was born in Iran and is now based in Austria, says. “The weaver who has the map would sing the ...

Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says a militant attack near the Pakistani border with Iran has left five Iranian forces ...

A prominent Iranian American human rights activist has expressed shock but also defiance about Iranian murder-for-hire plots ...

She gives us each a simple form to fill out while she outlines the rules, saying visitors must always be accompanied and ...

Iran has two major assets that should be blown off the face of the earth: its nuclear facilities which threaten Israel’s very existence; and its string of oil fields along the Persian Gulf ...