Vintage Persian Kashmar RugThis rug comes from Kashmar, a city in the Khorasan Province of northeastern Iran, sitting along the ancient Silk Road at a crossroads of Central Asian and Persian cultural influence. Kashmar rugs are distinctive for their pictorial and narrative designs, elaborate medallion fields, floral compositions, cypress trees and vase motifs that draw from Persian mythology, poetry and the archaeological legacy of the region. References to ancient Persia, its