Revenue from all Persian rug exports has fallen from around a billion dollars a year in 2000, the last time sanctions were lifted, to just over $300 million a year today, he tells Newsweek.

Some of Tousi’s rugs sell for more than $30,000, even as customers increasingly seek out more economical Afghan and Pakistani rugs. “It’s hard to sell a Persian rug that’s more expensive ...

The call came in to the rug store at 10:30 on Wednesday morning: After five days in U.S. customs, the first batch of carpets imported from Iran were ready for pickup.

Some of the more intricate rugs featuring birds, flowers, leaves, ... In 2013, an antique Persian rug sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York City for nearly $36 million.

There lay a carpet made 2,500 years ago, when the Persian Empire was founded, and it cannot have been the first. Diverse types of rugs for nomadic tribes offered ground insulation, which ...

From contemporary art to fashion and even music, the symbolism of the famous Persian rug pervades in many of aspects of modern life beyond interior decoration, says Joobin Bekhrad. Poetry, wine ...

As such, Turkish carpets can sometimes be regarded as authentic Persian rugs. The most expensive Persian rug ever bought was a 17th-century Persian vase-style carpet, which sold at auction in June ...

An intricate, 17th century Persian carpet went up for sale at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday. When the gavel came down, it became the world's most expensive rug ever sold at auction.

This Expansive Persian Rug Showroom Is Manayunk’s Best Kept Secret Parisa Abdollahi's collection is definitely worth seeing — if she lets you. By Sabrina Farmer · 6/21/2016, 1:44 p.m.

From contemporary art to fashion and even music, the symbolism of the famous Persian rug pervades in many of aspects of modern life beyond interior decoration, says Joobin Bekhrad. Poetry, wine ...