Isfahan Carpets

At Broxburn, just to the west of Edinburgh and only 35 miles from Glasgow, you can find Caroline Allan and a magnificent collection of Persian rugs and carpets. The Persian carpet, the best of oriental rugs, is as much a product of the Iranian landscape as the clay walled villages and the wide expanses of plain with mountain ranges on the horizon. Iran (traditionally called Persia) has been continuously occupied for four thousand years; in that time, it has been repeatedly invaded, looted, settled and reset