Pictorial carpet

Carpet design

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A pictorial carpet of Cyrus the Great and Cassandane in Apadana Palace

A pictorial carpet, picture carpet, tableau rug, carpet tableau or rug tableau (Persian: تابلو فرش) is an ornamental rug specially prepared for hanging on room and hall walls for decoration. The designs and samples on pictorial carpets are completely different from those on common floor rugs. Pictorial carpets are generally made of silk but they have also been made from wool. Pictorial carpets are usually framed to sell and use.

## Description

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The very concept and expectations of Persian rugs slowly started to change over the past 25 years. The original tableau rug, also known as pictorial carpet is not known when it was weaved together but some of the old rugs back in 19th & 20th century show that the similar type design were used such as hunting scene in Isfahan or Qum carpet as well as floral design in Isfahan and Tabriz carpet.

Also picturesque scenes from ancient Persia showing the king and his wife is another example. After the 1979 revolution in Iran, the whole industry started to change and many of the original patterns which were famous in Iran were exported to many countries which they have started producing similar products with much lower quality such as China, Turkish, Afghanistan, India etc. and unfortunately selling them in the global market known as Persian design carpets. This have hurt the industry significantly which the export of the Persian rugs has been reducing year by year after the revolution. At the same time a new trend slowly started to take shape as part of the Persian rug culture and Iranian came to a conclusion since they are best known carpet weaver and the oldest known carpet maker in the world & modern society, why not to re-produce some of the most famous, well known and rare art works from across the globe in the new product known as “tableau rug”. What is known is that now this is a new trend in the ancient world of Persian rug.

Pictorial carpets are being woven exactly the same way as the Persian rug has been made over the past 2500 years so there is no different in quality. The main different is that in pictorial carpet, there is not the ancient design and it always has a picture or scenery that are much more colorful with many different scenes. They can be framed the same way as an art work or painting and they are designed to be hung on the wall.

## Themes

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* Scenery
* People & faces
* Animal
* Statues & Figurines
* Flowers
* French Style
* Persian Miniature
* Religious Theme
* Persepolis (Pasargad) Theme

## See also

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* Tabriz carpet

## References

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Rugs|

* Arabian
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Carpets|

* Arabian
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People|

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Places|

* Azerbaijan Carpet Museum
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* Kidderminster
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* Metropolitan Museum of Art
* Miho Museum
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* Museo Poldi Pezzoli
* Museum of Textiles (Lyon)
* Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
* Saint Louis Art Museum
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* Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
* Turkmen Carpet Museum
* Victoria and Albert Museum
* Wilton

Cleaning|

* Carpet cleaning
* Dry carpet cleaning
* Floorcloth
* Hot water extraction
* Truckmount carpet cleaner
* Vacuum cleaner

Fabrics|

* Frieze
* Jajim
* Shag
* Soumak

Manufacture
and installation|

* Ghiordes and Senneh knots
* Knot density
* Pile
* Rubia
* Rug hooking
* Rug making
* Tack strip
* Underlay
* Warp and weft

Dyes|

* Natural dye
* Synthetic dye
* Madder (Rubia tinctorum)
* Indigofera tinctoria
* Carmine
* Cochineal
* Armenian cochineal
* Polish cochineal
* Dyes in Uzbekistan

Manufacturers|

* Axminster Carpets
* Brintons
* Cormar Carpets
* Dilmaghani
* DOBAG Carpet Initiative
* A & M Karagheusian
* Savonnerie manufactory
* Ziegler & Co.

Carpets in culture|

* Eagle rug
* Early Anatolian animal carpets
* Gul
* Kilim motifs
* Elibelinde
* Evil eye
* Tree of life
* Magic carpet
* Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting
* Pictorial carpet
* Prayer rug
* Red carpet
* Transylvanian rugs
* War rugs

Notable individual
carpets|

* Ardabil Carpet
* Armenian Orphan Rug
* Badding Rug
* Bahar-e Kasra
* Coronation Carpet

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Tabriz landmarks

Famous and historic structures|

* Arg of Tabriz
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* Maqbaratoshoara
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* Tomb of Two Kamals
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Places of worship|

* Imamzadeh Hamzah, Tabriz
* Jameh Mosque of Tabriz
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* Shoghakat Armenian Church
* Saint Sarkis Armenian Church
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* On ibn Ali's shrine

Nature and parks|

* Khaqani Park
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* Golestan Park

Entertainment and recreation|

* Azerbaijan Museum
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* Pottery museum of Tabriz
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* Sahand
* Eynali
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Arts and culture|

* Tabriz International Book Fair
* Tabriz National Library
* Tarbiat library
* Pictorial carpet
* Tabriz rug

Science and education|

* Madrasah Akbarieh
* American Memorial School in Tabriz
* Mansur High School
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Sport venues|

* Shahid Qasem Soleimani Stadium
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* Tabriz Cycling Track
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Transportation|

* Tabriz International Airport
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Bridge, Squares and streets|

* Tabriz Cable Bridge
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Houses|

* Amir Nezam House
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* Pars El-Gölü Hotel

Economy|

* Tabriz International Exhibition Center
* Aras Free Zone
* Shirin Asal
* World Trade Center
* Machine Sazi Tabriz
* Rakhsh Khodro Diesel
* Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company
* Iran Khodro Tabriz
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Government and financial institutions|

* Tabriz Stock Exchange
* Sa'at Tower
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