Interesting facts

Turkman carpet restoration Last month, we restored a beautiful Turkmen carpet, about a hundred years old, at the Farzad gallery and master workshop on Gornji trg in Ljubljana. The carpet, as its owner told u...

The Safavid dynasty, named after Sufi Muslims and originating from Ardabil in northwestern Iran, adopted Shia Islam, reunited the country, and encouraged the development of the arts. During their rule, Persian art experienced a veritable renaissance.

The essence of the Persian miniature is its illustration. It gave a visual image to the text, story or poetry, which made it more attractive, more interesting and easier to understand. The Persian miniature combined poetry and illustration into a kind of wonderful, unique combination, a reflection of human dreams, as someone wrote….