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My kilims have returned home today, cleaned, secured edges, patched up holes. Here is the qasha’i, with its striking chequer border and internal panels which I think represent one notable clan.
The traditional nomadic Qashqa’i travelled with their flocks twice yearly to and from the summer highland pastures north of Shiraz roughly 480 km or 300 miles south to the winter pastures on lower (and warmer) lands near the Persian Gulf, to the southwest of Shiraz.
The majority, however, have now become partially or wholly sedentary. The trend towards settlement has been increasing markedly since the 1960s. I suspect that this coincides with the mass production of kilims as a form of income away from their nomadic pastoral life