Shīrāz rug

Shīrāz rug, handwoven floor covering made in the district around the city of Shīrāz in southern Iran. The best known are the Qashqāʾī rugs, products of nomadic peoples. A group of tribes—some Arab, some Turkish, forming the Khamseh Confederation—weaves rugs somewhat similar to the Qashqāʾī pieces in a variety of patterns, as do the inhabitants of certain Iranian weaving villages in the locality of Shīrāz. One may find both the symmetrical and asymmetrical knots from...