import founded 1921 founder mehdi dilmaghani headquarters new york usa products carpets textiles manufacture website http www.dilmaghani.com the dilmaghani family the oldest existing manufacturers of hand knotted carpets and oriental rugs can be traced back to the 1850s 1 qajar dynasty persia . in an industry which largely produces untitled items often identifiable only by experts 2 the history and lineage of any name relating to specific types of rugs for so many decades is unusual . through the 1960s the dilmaghani family was still designing manufacturing and importing persian carpets from iran to the united states . 3 dilmaghani is seen as an important connection of 19th and 20th century persian rug and carpet production 4 in and around the cities of tabriz and kerm n. dilmaghani remains among the best known names 4 5 of branded 19th 20th and 21st century hand knotted carpets . contents 1 identification 2 history 3 persian rugs 4 oriental rugs 5 notable products 6 references 7 external links identification edit antique 92 dilmaghani kerman signature ca. 1880 semi antique dilmaghani kerman cyrus crown ca. 1925 often carpets by dilmaghani from the mid 19th century through the early first quarter of the 20th are identifiable by a large woven signature in persian . they are usually within the border of kerm n persian rugs bearing cartouche inscriptions loosely translate as made to order by dilmaghani . additionally some rugs had numerical persian inscriptions . the two earliest generations of dilmaghani carpets are identified by these persian numerical designations . the earliest number 02 spans ca. 1845 1880 . the second generation of signed rugs designated with a 92 spans ca. 1880 1910 . post first quarter 20th century examples are either modestly signed or bear the firm s trademark crown with laurel known as the cyrus crown . 6 mid century unauthorized replicas of the firm s crown kerman carpets are often referred to as imperial crown or crown royal kermans . these and other permutations using the word crown were created by other manufacturers to ride on the clout of true cyrus crown carpets 7 as well as the dilmaghani firm . history edit the dilmaghani family were of azarbaijani origin and were largely wholesale general merchants or tujjar khan al tujjar as well as sarraf or bankers . 1 the first account of the dilmaghani family that relates to carpet manufacturing and trade traces from the 1850s ; first in tabriz and later in kerm n. 1 the dilmaghanis were also involved in the export of dried fruit to russia and turkey working through agents throughout persia and representatives in constantinople . 1 8 the oldest documented and verifiable producer of dilmaghani branded carpets is hadji mohammed hussein dilmaghani whose primary business were selling bills of credit to india 1 and manufacturing fine persian carpets . early carpets by dilmaghani are often identified through auction houses such as sotheby s christie s and skinner inc. and knowledgeable authorities in antique rugs made in workshops or cities . citation needed mehdi dilmaghani hadji mohammad s son arrived in the united states in 1922 and founded mehdi dilmaghani & co. inc. in manhattan new york . mehdi dilmaghani continued to manufacture import and distribute persian rugs for the american and european markets and therefore is regarded as a significant tie between 19th and 20th century carpet production . 4 in 1963 mehdi dilmaghani and co. inc relocated from manhattan to scarsdale new york . the dilmaghani firm contracted architect robert carroll may a long time understudy & apprentice 9 of frank lloyd wright to carry out dilmaghani s building design . the dilmaghani showroom contains 20 000 square feet of showroom office and warehouse space free of internal support pillars and load bearing walls . today 4th and 5th generation dilmaghanis continue and are active in the oriental rug industry . dennis dilmaghani mehdi dilmaghani s son became president and took over operation of the company in 1977 . david dilmaghani 5th generation operates his own business with focus on antique and vintage hand knotted rugs in retail capacity both online national and international and locally with a retail presence . 10 persian rugs edit dilmaghani persian rug production into the 1880s was supervised by hadji mohammed hussein s brother hadji mohammad dilmaghani . in 1911 more than 2 000 weavers in kerman city were under contract to hadji mohammad dilmaghani . 1 their primary market was in america and by 1917 the market value of a single export shipment to europe or america could reach as high as 24 000 . 1 from the early 1920s through the early 1960s dilmaghani owned three factories in kerman and several in tabriz and sarouk persia . based on quality these carpets were subjected to the highest import tax assessment determined by united states customs . citation needed in 1929 dilmaghani adapted a crown and laurel woven into specific rugs to supplement or substitute the long time run of dilmaghani signatures . mehdi dilmaghani & co. inc. registered several variations of their cyrus crown trademark in 1934 . 11 post mid 20th century dilmaghani still traded 3 and imported kerman carpets and the cyrus crown trademark remains active and in use today . over the course of nearly sixty years mehdi manufactured an estimated 25 000 crown kerman crown sarouks and crown tabriz carpets ranging from 2 x3 to 15 x 30 in size . crown carpets were extensively documented and the firm still retains many original production records including weaver names and loom dates for carpets from the 1930s . 12 oriental rugs edit since the early 1950s dilmaghani manufactured and imported oriental rugs from many countries other than iran including carpets made in afghanistan armenia bulgaria china hungary india japan nepal pakistan portugal romania russia spain tibet and turkey . 13 an installation of a dilmaghani carpet was made in the reading room of the clinton school of public service located on the william j. clinton presidential center campus little rock arkansas 2004 which took several years to make . 14 notable products edit cyrus crown carpets this is the company s flagship brand adnan collection a dilmaghani cyrus crown edition carpet . this carpet was chosen for and may be seen installed in the reading room of the clinton school of public service on the campus of the william j. clinton presidential center little rock arkansas . references edit a b c d e f g ittig annette 1986 . the kirmani boom a study in entrepreneurship . pp. 114 119 . ford p.r.j. 2007 . oriental carpet design . pp. 10 . a b edwards a. cecil 1960 . the persian carpet a survey of the carpet weaving industry of persia . london duckworth . p. 56 . a b c the international journal of oriental carpets and textiles . hali . 15 6 74 . 1993 . nemati parviz 1980 . rugs as an investment . new york agate press . p. 94 . cyrus crown first use 1929 callaghan 1973 . uniform commercial code reporting service cases and commentary volume 12 . piuke and fischer inc. pp. 129 130 . american journal of economics and business administration 1 2 . 2009 79 96 . guggenheimer tobias s. 1995 . a taliesin legacy the architecture of frank lloyd wright s apprentices . new york u.a. van nostrand reinhold . isbn 0 442 01879 7 . old new house llc dilmaghani crown trademark cyrus crown documentation countries of origin presidential oriental rug external links edit official website v t e rugs and carpets rugs abadeh afghan ahar alcaraz arak ardabil azerbaijani bakhtiari bakshaish balouch bessarabian bidjar borujerd braided caucasian dhurrie flokati heriz isfahan jozan karadagh kashan kashmir kerman kilim zanjan shahsevan rug kuba kurdish lilihan mashhad nain navajo oriental pakistani petate qom rya sarouk scandinavia seraband seychour shiraz sweden tabriz tibetan turkmen uzbek julkhyr uzbek napramach varamin y r k carpets armenian bakshaish bellini berber bergama bessarabian 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