Kish Carpet Festival 2005
From left to right: Dr.
Hossein Ghassemi, a US educated official, a friend of
President Khatami, and the head of the Kish Free Zone
Organization, the highest government official running the
Kish Island. Next to him is Mr.
Manouchehr Emami Head of the Kish Trade Promotion Center
who was formerly with Iran Carpet Company. In the center
is the Deputy Minister of Commerce and the head of "
Iran Carpet Center", his Excellency Arabsorkhai. I
do not have the name of the man immediately to the right.
The man at the far right is Mr. Safaei who works for Mr Emami at the Kish Trade
Promotion Center.
Here we have Abbas Sayahi greeting his
Excellency Arabsorkhai at the Sayahi display.
Iranian Radio & Television
Organization Central News Unit interviewing His
Excellency Feyzollah Arabsorkhi who is standing inbetween
Dr. Hossein Ghassemi and Master
Faizullah Haghighi in front of the Haghighi display.
More of His Excellency Feyzollah
Arabsorkhi and Dr. Hossein Ghassemi being interviewed
with the Haghighi Carpets in the background.
Master
Morteza Mirmehdi of Qum with his daughter
Participants in the festival
Hamad-Mahdie
Alabaf at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Galibafi Nassadji
Tabriz at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Haghighi of
Isfahan at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Heidarian Carpet
at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Iran Carpet
Company at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Iran Carpet
Gallery (Toranj e Talaee) at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Esfahan-Mahdie at
Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Mirmehdi of Qum
at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Dr. Hassan Saeedi
Host of the Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Sayahfar Carpet
Export at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Taher Sabahi and
Abbas Sayahi at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Sayahi Began
Packing Up Early
Mohamed Sassila
of Silk Road Collections at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
An American dealer buying in Iran.
Shoar Carpet
Gallery at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
Sobhe Trading
Tehran at Kish Carpet Festival 2005
More Notes on
Parviz Tanavoli
Zollanvari at
Kish Carpet Festival 2005
More to come!
Left to right: Abbas
Sayahi, Gholam Zollanvari
and me (Barry O'Connell)
If you want to understand the Persian Gabbeh today you
need to know Sayahi
and Zollanvari. These two men have moved the market
tremendously. Zollanvari has been a master of producing
and marketing Gabbehs. Sayahi
dyes the wool and even helped Zollanvari with their
vegetal color recipes and of course Sayahi
stared in the movie Gabbeh
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