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Shahsevan rugIran

Shahsevan rug or Shahsevan Kilim is the Iranian Style, handmade by the Shahsevans in the Azerbaijan region of Iran.

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Shahsevan rug or Shahsevan Kilim is the Iranian Style, handmade by the Shahsevans in the Azerbaijan region of Iran. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Shahsevan rug”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Shahsevan rug is type of rug, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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