Ardabil rug

The name Ardabil comes from the Avesta (The sacred book of Zoroastrians) and has the literal meaning of a tall holy place.

This type of rug is noted for its sophisticated construction, original compositional elements and decorative completeness of the 16-point turunj located in the middle of the center field.

However, before handing it over to the mosque, Maghsud Kashani told the makers to weave his name on the rug along with the following stanza: "I have no other shelter but yours, except for your doors there is no other roof but for this home where I can lay my head" (The couplet from the 65th gazelle by the 14th century lyric poet hafez (1300–1389).

[citation needed] The original "Sheikh Safi", repaired from the other of the pair, is displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, with the second carpet, reduced in size, in Los Angeles.

Shah Abbas moved the capital of the Safavids to the internal regions of Iran, namely to the town of Isfahan.

The “Gum-Shah Abbasi” carpet is noted for the elements of an unusual form named “Golhâ-ye Shâh 'Abbâsi” (in Persian “Flowers of Shah Abbas”).

The forms of these buteh as well as their vertical and horizontal arrangement remind of the carpets of the Shirvan type “Maraza” and “Khila-buta”.

[citation needed] The border and the center edge of the carpet are unusual: they used to consist of vegetal curve-linear elements but as the weaving technique improved they acquired new forms.