Persian carpet
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A Persian carpet or Persian rug, also known as Iranian carpet, is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in Iran, for home use, local sale, and export. Carpet weaving is an essential part of Persian culture and Iranian art. Within the group of Oriental rugs produced by the countries of the "rug belt", the Persian carpet stands out by the variety and elaborateness of its manifold designs.
Detail of the Mantes Carpet, Safavid, Louvre
Hunting Carpet made by Ghiyâth-ud-Din Jâmi, wool, cotton and silk, 1542–1543, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
16th century, the "Schwarzenberg Carpet"
Persian Safavid period Animal carpet 16th century, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Oriental rug
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An oriental rug is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in "Oriental countries" for home use, local sale, and export.
Border of the Pazyryk Carpet, circa 400 BC.
Carpet fragment, Loulan, Xinjiang province, China, dated to 3rd-4th century AD. British Museum, London
The Pazyryk Carpet. Circa 400 BC. Hermitage Museum
Animal carpet, Turkey, dated to the 11th–13th century, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha