Iran to ship carpets to US ‘directly’ soon

Iran has a total of 40 carpet designs that each belong to a different geographical region. The picture shows a Tabriz carpet which is an important handicraft of a city by the same name in northwestern Iran. Iran says it will start direct exports of its traditional hand-woven carpets to…

WIPO registers 19 Iranian regions associated with Persian carpet

Forty regions throughout Iran have been registered in the national list as areas specialized in weaving Persian carpets, out of which 19 are globally registered by the UN specialized agency, said head of Iran’s National Carpet Center here Wednesday. Hamid Kargar noted that through correspondence with the World Intellectual Property…