Following is a transcript of the video. 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 ...

“Because of their tight weave, vintage Persian rugs especially take spills ... machine-made ones.” She notes that silk rugs are the exception to this rule, since they “will have quite ...

A Safavid-era silk carpet from the school of master of carpet weaving Maqsud Kashani fetched 50 billion rials (about $1.2 million) during the fifth edition of Iran’s National Auction on Friday.