[13] Ismael reigned, 1502-1524; Tamasp reigned, 1524-1576.
[14] 1586-1628.
[15] These will be considered in a later chapter.
[16] This group includes both antique and modern rugs.
[17] Robert Kerr Porter, a well-known traveller, stated that the floor of the audience hall of the governor at Tabriz, whom he visited in 1818, “was entirely overspread with Herat carpets, those of that manufacture being the richest that can be made.”
[18] By “Type Characteristics” is meant the characteristics of such types of the class as are most frequently seen. There are exceptions to these types.
[19] As this is the case with most rugs, only the exceptions to this feature will be noticed in the type characteristics of other classes.
[20] Ibn Batutah.
[21] Of modern Ispahans.
[22] “Burlington Magazine,” December, 1909.