Antique Persian Farahan Oriental Rug

Antique Persian Rug that may well be an old Farahan Oriental Rug. The border looks mid 1800s and the snakes in the trees are very unusual. Let me know what you think this rug should be properly described as.

Tanavoli Iran's Greatest sculptor to Show Persian Rugs in Dubai

I have had the privilege of knowing Parviz Tanavoli for many years. In all that time despite being Iran's greatest sculptor and a huge commercial success Tanavoli has never lost his love for the traditional hand woven village and tribal rugs of the Iranian people. In 2005 Tanavoli and I vigorously lobbied the Iranian Ministry of Commerce in Tehran to preserve and protect the authentic village art of the Persian people. It is exciting to see his continued efforts to preserve the essential art form of the people of Iran. In many ways Tanavoli is to Persian Art what the Imam Khomeini was to Persian Shia Islam. When each returned from exile they changed the country and the world.

Tanavoli to showcase his Persian carpets in Dubai

Art Desk On Line: 03 December 2011 15:40 In Print: Sunday 04 December 2011

TEHRAN -- The Iranian Etemad Gallery in Dubai will be hanging a collection of Persian carpets created by veteran Iranian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli from December 9-14.

Highlighting the significance of Persian carpets and its beautiful designs and patterns, the exhibit will be narrating part of the history of Persian carpets.

Known as the country’s first significant modern sculptor, Tanavoli has concentrated on old pictorial carpets which have been replaced with modern designs these days, the Persian service of ILNA reported on Saturday.

Tanavoli is the author of “Persian Flatweaves”, the first comprehensive survey on Persian carpets and the exhibit is trying to show part of these old flatweaves.

Flatweaves have until recently been seen as merely the products and property of the poor. Since the late 1960s, however, growing attention has been paid to the best known type of flatweave, the kilim, revealing both its quality and variety.

Antique Oriental Rugs

 Oriental Rugs

Antique Oriental Rugs

 Antique Oriental rugs have always been synonymous with exotic luxury, elegant design, and a comfortable, highly aestheticized environment. From the earliest times, humans have needed to embellish and ornament the circumstances in which they lived, and the medium of woven carpets soon emerged to meet such requirements. Carpet production is attested from ancient times. Flatwoven floor coverings are probably as old as textiles and architecture. The oldest knotted pile carpets can be attested by the sixth century B.C., but their production may well be considerably older. Some experts believe that pile carpets originated among tent-dwelling nomadic peoples to the east of Central Asia as a more decorative substitute for animal hides, providing comfort and insulation as well as decoration. Carpet making reached the Near East through contact with such nomadic peoples. Since relations between Central Asian nomads and the Near East were more or less constant, the production of pile carpets in the latter region was probably stimulated and influenced by nomadic traditions again and again.

Antique Oriental Rugs

This process first becomes clear in the medieval period, between the eleventh and the fourteenth centuries, when various Central and East Asian peoples like the Turks and Mongols came to power across the eastern Islamic world, bringing with them traditions of carpet making that were by now many centuries old. The earliest Near Eastern carpets of this kind are those of Seljuk Turkey and those made in Iran under the Mongol and Timurid dynasties. Carpets of this kind now began to have highly complex designs influenced by contemporary textiles, especially silks.

Antique Oriental Rugs

From this period on, the knotted pile carpet became an increasingly standard feature of Islamic art and high culture, and soon it captured the attention of wealthy Europeans as well. Already by the thirteenth century merchant travelers like Marco Polo remarked on the beauty of the Oriental carpets they encountered on their journeys, and soon such carpets began to be imported into Venice and thence to the rest of Europe. While actual early carpets of this kind are rarely preserved, European painting by the great masters from Giotto and Ghirlandaio to Holbeim, van Eyck, Lotto, and Vermeer constantly depict carpets from Turkey and Iran. Such paintings document the importance that the Oriental rug had attained by this time as a quintessential symbol of cosmopolitan taste and affluence. So valued were these carpets that there were various attempts to imitate or adapt them in Europe.

Antique Oriental Rugs

After the seventeenth century Europeans briefly lost interest in the Oriental carpet. This probably reflected developments in the Near and Middle East, where all the great ruling dynasties collapsed or went into regression, bringing about a corresponding roll-back in the quantity and quality of carpet production. During this hiatus European carpet production was stepped up, creating the Aubusson and Savonnerie types in a Neo-Classical western style. Carpet production in Spain, which had begun under Muslim rule in the Middle Ages, also moved in to meet the European demand for rugs.

Antique Oriental Rugs

In the second half of the nineteenth century, rug weaving in Iran went into a great period of revival under the highly retrospective Qajar dynasty, re-awakening the European interest for Oriental rugs and creating a new American market for them as well. This eventually led to a revival or expansion of carpet production in Turkey and also a revival of Indian carpet weaving under British rule. At this time Chinese rugs, whose production went back to ancient times, finally became known in quantity to European and American markets.

Antique Oriental Rugs

From that time on the western world became used to an endless variety of Oriental rugs and carpets whose production continues into the present time. The most notable recent developments are the revival of vegetable dyes and hand-spinning of wool, which had largely died away in the course of the twentieth century. Such new productions capture much of the quality and original flavor of antique Oriental rugs. But only a genuine antique can preserve the soul and spirit of  weaving  Oriental rugs, an art form that reaches back virtually unbroken to the earliest times. Antique Oriental rugs are not only objects of great beauty and rarity; they are a much-needed bridge to a bygone world of consummate skill and expressiveness that is vastly different from the mass-culture of modern western experience.

Abdi Parvizian liable for son’s debt of $2 million

Retailer liable for son’s debt of $2 million

Appeals court addresses clash in federal rules

STEVE LASH

Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer

August 5, 2008 6:54 PM

The owner of a Chevy Chase home furnishings store is on the hook for a $2 million debt incurred by his son’s company, a federal appeals court affirmed.

Abdi Parvizian, owner of Parvizian Masterpieces, did not deny that he guaranteed the debt to manufacturer Nourison Rug Corp. Instead, he argued that Nourison released him from his obligation by giving his son, a rug wholesaler, more time to pay.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed.

“Forbearance should be encouraged as a matter of policy as it is a creditor’s compromise between accepting no payment and entering into costly litigation,” the court stated.

First, though, it said Parvizian waited too long to raise the defense. He should have included it in his original answer to Nourison’s lawsuit, the appeals court held.

The 3-0 decision affirmed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow, who declined to let Parvizian amend his answer.

Rules clash

In the process, the 4th Circuit addressed for the first time what it characterized as a clash between competing provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

While one rule gives defendants leeway to amend their answers except when the amendment is in bad faith or would be futile, another gives judges broad discretion to reject amended pleadings in order to keep the court on schedule.

Parvizian argued that the liberal standards of Rule 15(a) should apply. Chasanow, though, applied Rule 16(b), which requires the defendant to show “good cause” why the amendment should be allowed.

The 4th Circuit came down on the side of judicial discretion.

“Given their heavy case loads, district courts require the effective case management tools provided by Rule 16,” the 4th Circuit held last week. “Therefore, after the deadlines provided by a scheduling order have passed, the good cause standard must be satisfied to justify leave to amend the pleadings.”

Parvizian lacked good cause for amending his initial answer, the 4th Circuit held.

The circumstances surrounding the underlying agreement and Parvizian’s promise to serve as guarantor did not change between the time he first answered the complaint and when he subsequently sought to raise the defense of release.

Parvizian argued that the circumstances had in fact changed, but the appellate court rejected that argument.

Parvizian’s attorney, Thomas A. DiBiase, declined to comment on the case. DiBiase is a partner at Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram PC in Washington, D.C.

No good cause

The original debt-payment agreement was signed in August 2005, when Allen Parvizian’s company, Parinco of Virginia Inc., owed Nourison more than $2.3 million. Parinco was to make biweekly payments of about $50,000 for two years.

Two months later, Abdi Parvizian executed a guaranty letter promising full payment if Parinco defaulted.

But unknown to him, the guarantor said, Nourison and Parinco changed the terms in February 2006. Under the new schedule, reached in an e-mail exchange, Parinco was to pay a past-due balance of $18,219 and make one subsequent payment of $56,000, followed by biweekly payments of $25,000.

Parvizian argued that this changed the nature of the debt, increasing his exposure and thus releasing him from his obligation as guarantor.

But the 4th Circuit agreed with Nourison, which said the agreement was merely a “temporary forbearance” to decelerate the debt-payment schedule and did not relieve Parvizian of his obligation to cover any default in full.

“Therefore, there was no error in finding that the facts did not support satisfaction of the ‘good cause’ standard” for permitting Parvizian to amend his answer, the 4th Circuit added.

Crags Sheltering Margon Waterfall

Crags Sheltering Margon Waterfall

Margon Waterfall is located in Margon Village, Fars province. It is one of the most beautiful falls of Iran. The fall of water in this waterfall has created an unparalleled scene.

PETAG Tabriz Carpet makes Dh1.3m at UAE Auction

PETAG Tabriz Carpet makes Dh1.3m at UAE Auction

UAE : Auction raises Dh1.3m for unique Persian carpet November 24, 2007
The International auction held in Abu Dhabi witnessed the bidding for a magnificent and unique Persian carpet, which grossed a massive Dh1.3 million.The carpet was identified as belonging to a small group of an extensively large Persian carpet made by the popular Tabriz workshops of the German company PETAG. The carpet sized 701x466 cm was ordered by a group of individuals representing Germany.Researchers believe that the discovery of this carpet will fill in the space of a very significant Persian carpet masterpiece. This group of carpets has been acknowledged as one of the largest and the most amazing works of the period.

Local Rug Dealer Announces Launch of Alan Taghdisi Antique Collection

Local Rug Dealer Announces Launch of Alan Taghdisi Antique Collection - Oriental Rug Bazaar to Open New High End Rug Showroom : ArriveNet Press Releases : Industry: "Local Rug Dealer Announces Launch of Alan Taghdisi Antique Collection - Oriental Rug Bazaar to Open New High End Rug Showroom
Local Rug Dealer Announces Launch of Alan Taghdisi Antique Collection. Oriental Rug Bazaar to Open New High End Rug Showroom Oriental Rug Bazaar (5525 Westheimer) is pleased to announce the opening of the Alan Taghdisi Antique Collection showroom, a 1...
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(PRWEB) May 27, 2005 -- Oriental Rug Bazaar (5525 Westheimer) is pleased to announce the opening of the Alan Taghdisi Antique Collection showroom, a 10,000 square foot treasure palace for the serious rug collector.

"There is a great demand for specialty antique rugs in our region," said Oriental Rug Bazaar owner Alan Taghdisi. "I"ve taken my personal rug collection and combined it with the premier pieces from a long time European collector to create the most exclusive antique rug collection available."

This multi-million dollar collection is currently being displayed and sold at Alan Taghdisi's showrooms in Houston, New York, and Los Angeles. Mr. Taghdisi"s Houston showroom will be located inside the 30,000 square foot Oriental Rug Bazaar building and will be unveiled in September of this year.





"We are preparing a special showroom to cater to the discerning needs of the high end rug collector. Quality and over-service will be our hallmark," Taghdisi added.

The Alan Taghdisi Antique Collection consists of the following:

Antique oushaks, serapi, Tabriz haji jalili, lavar, kirmanshah, ferahan, French aubussons, French tapestries, Mohtasham kashans wool and silk, Turkish hereke, and Agra all over 100 years old. Sizes range from 2' x 3' to 18" x 26"; all in emaculate condition.

It is widely believed by the leading auction houses and prominent antique collectors that the Alan Taghdisi Antique Collection is the finest and largest for a single collector in the world.

For more information on the Alan Taghdisi Antique Collection or to make an appointment call 713 960 9070."