Have you ever seen the first carpet before?
No?
Can you guess how old is it?
500?1000 years? wronnnnnnng!
Pazyryk was the first carpet that was discovered,in 1949, in Pazyryk Valley in Siberia.Refer to Persia history by Gresham,the carpet was discovered in the grave of Scythian prince.The carpet was a gift from Achaemenian dynasty (546 B.C.) ’s king to Scythian Prince.But the carpet was woven 5th BC ,and it was frozen through the history.This carpet is 1.83×2 meters and has 36 symmetrical knots per cm².As you can see in the picture ,the carpet is divided by borders.
In the first border,there are 7 horsemen some of them mounted others walking beside horses
but if you notice every sides have 7 horsemen,and the carpet has 4 sides,so the total we have 28 horsemen .the number is exact number that we can can find in Persepolis,that shows 28 men caring Xerxes’s(the third king) throne to Persepolis.In the inner principal band there is a line of six elks on each side. The two external guards are decorated, with a succession of small squares containing imaginary creatures, probably griffins.Dyes used for the carpet,are natural but their originalityare not known because most of them were faded away.
Tags: Persian Art, Persian carpet
