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A Persian home on the countryside contains only a few pieces of furniture and the carpets are the most important feature in a room. There is often a loom in one part of the house, where the women can be seen working on a carpet for their own use or to be sold to provide extra income for the household. The knowledge of this handicraft is inherited. The weavers usually only have a simple sketch instead of an original and this allows them more freedom during their work. The rough yarn does not allow for any advanced patterns, but the wool, which is of good quality, is tied to give the carpet a long lifetime. The carpets, not much bigger than dozar (200x140 cm) are often tied on a cotton warp with handspun wool from their own sheep, dyed with natural colours which have been collected by the weavers. The tradition and the feeling for the colours has been well preserved from earlier generations, usually from nomads or semi-nomads.
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