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Sayahi Began Packing Up Early
Tufenkian Carpets Area Rug Sale.

The Second Day of the Kish Carpet Festival 2005 Sayahi took Down Their Display of Kilims

The first day the Kish Carpet Festival Parham Sayahi whispered to me that it looked like a Sell Out. By the second day Sayahi started baling the sold merchandise.

Color is Critical

Abbas Sayahi dyes the wool and he is the Master Dyer of Iran. Red, white, and blue are standard colors for natural dyers but it is hard to do them better than Sayahi. As for all the other shades Sayahi is unmatched at the range and quality of colors and shades he can achieve with natural dyes.

The best of Traditions of the Iranian People.

Here we have Iran's greatest living sculptor and rug scholar Parviz Tanavoli looking at the new line of Sayahi sofrehs with Abbas Sayahi. The line was inspired by Tanavoli's classic work "The Sofreh of Kamo".

Parham Sayahi has worked hard to maintain the traditions of Sofreh creation

Parviz Tanavoli has been a pioneer in documenting examples of Iran's weaving. Iran is at a crisis point in that culture that is allowed to disappear now will never be recovered. Tanavoli and Sayahi have been showing that preserving the weaving culture of Iran is good business as well.

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