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Image credits
All 125 photographs on this site, where each one comes from and the licence we use it under.
- Photographs
- 125
- Rug photographs
- 75
- 37 from Unsplash, 34 from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4 from The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Room, craft and detail photographs
- 50
- 50 from Unsplash
The rug photographs stand in for Persian Knots' own photography while the site is in preview. Museum images are in the public domain (CC0); Unsplash photographs are used under the Unsplash License. Each rug's close-up is a crop of the same photograph. We keep our own copies of every file and never load images from these sites.
Rug photographs
Listed with the rug each photograph shows on this site.
Hand-knotted silk, India
Carpet with Irises, Tulips, and Other Flowering Plants, India or present-day Pakistan ca. 1650 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest and Rogers Fund, 1970 (CC0)
CC0 1.0 (Public Domain)Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (opens in a new tab)
Room, craft and detail photographs
Room settings, workshops, textures and bazaars used across the home page, collections, journal and guides.
01Panelled heritage bedroom with a blue canopy bed and a large faded Persian rug in soft window light
Room setting
Photo by Romain Galoche on Unsplash
Unsplash LicenseSource: Unsplash (opens in a new tab)
02Beamed farmhouse living room with grey sofas, a wood stove and a geometric kilim runner
Room setting
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash
