From a Cultural Melting Pot
Varamin is a historic caravan town and a hub of abstract weaving southeast of Tehran. Bypassed as Tehran grew increasingly important as the capital city in the 18th century, Varamin is nonetheless home to the vast diversity of Iran’s tribal and ethnic groups, each of which has contributed to and adapted a distinct regional weaving tradition.
This cultural melting pot complicates the work of definitively identifying Varamin’s impressive kilim output. The current piece, however, is likely a Kurdish weaving. The use of a curved weft technique and brown warps are characteristic traits, while the use of multi-ply selvedge cords suggests an older weaving.
Tanavoli, Persian Flatweaves, pp. 133–137 & Petsopoulos, Kilims: Flat-woven Tapestry Rugs, 1979, p. 328.