Latif Karimov

The Soviet Consulate in Tehran invited him to become a member of the Russian cultural club, where he later directed and acted in plays by Uzeyir Hajibeyov and established an Azeri choir.

For students who were illiterate and could not take notes, he composed goshmas (Azeri poetic genre) to get them to remember weaving procedures.

[2] In addition to carpets, Karimov successfully designed jewellery, wood carvings, china and fabric patterns, and decorated the interior of buildings.

In the 1940s, while he was decorating the interior of the Nizami Museum, the Great Patriotic War broke out, and Karimov was hired as the Azerbaijan State Radio as an Iranian news edition broadcaster.

[3] In 1954, he organized his first personal exhibition which featured carpets, architectural ornaments, wood carvings, china vases, jewelry, graphic items, etc.

[5] According to the peer-reviewed International Journal of Heritage Studies, Karimov's carpet taxonomy and classification was part of a nationalist project.