Novel Adventurers

By Heidi Noroozy Polonaise carpet in the Iranian Carpet Museum Let’s take a trip back in time. We’ll set our time machine fo...

Shah Abbas I The first time I visited Esfahan, I was captivated by a slogan flashing on a neon sign outside my hotel window every night. ...

Photo by seier + seier When the Safavid king, Shah Abbas I, moved his capital from Qazvin, north of Tehran, to central Iran in 1598, he...

Our house is filled with Persian carpets. Some were wedding presents, others housewarming gifts and still more were rugs purchased on trips ...