Babak Kazemi’s Exit of Shirin and Farhadseries, for instance, makes beautiful use of Persian rug imagery in his mixed-media photography, while diaspora-based artists like Germany’s Anahita ...

Google Maps imagery rewoven into elaborate Persian rug ... Maps image data in a pretty novel way — the satellite photos serve as the fabric for intricate patterns inspired by Persian rugs.

They make up a small part of her collection of Persian rugs that once numbered 600. ... Imagery is more subtle in other rugs. She points to what at first glance seems to be a prayer rug.

Rugs are by no means a new thing. Ask any interior designer — or historian. One of the oldest rugs, called the Pazyryk carpet, ever discovered surfaced in 1949, and now resides in the Hermitage Museum ...

Oriental rugs are art you can walk on ... Historically, many of us think of them in terms of the imagery of medieval Europe: They were considered great status symbols in the 1500s and, ...

A real Persian rug, one from Iran, of the same size would range from $15,000 to more than $20,000. Antique rugs, those more than 75 years old, are even more challenging to judge and buy.

An antique Milas prayer rug from 1850, its border decorated with Solomon stars and blossoms (€3,500-€5,000) at Adam's auction of Peter Linden Oriental Carpet Collection.

Persian rugs face growing competition from rugs made in other countries, to the point where prices are often as much as 40 percent less than they were 15 years ago, Borhani said.

Babak Kazemi’s Exit of Shirin and Farhadseries, for instance, makes beautiful use of Persian rug imagery in his mixed-media photography, while diaspora-based artists like Germany’s Anahita ...

David Thomas Smith's first solo show of photographic art is called Anthropocene, and makes use of Google Maps image data in a pretty novel way — the satellite photos serve as the fabric for ...