"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [و‎‎٢‎٢‎٩] (٧٢٢/٤٦٤)

Y el vets of very great beauty are made at Mashhad and in various
places^ such as Isfahan, Kashan, and Tabriz.
Satin is also made j but not of so fine a quality. That from China
is much preferred.
Handkerchiefs of very flimsy texture, about a yard square, spotted
yellow, red, brown, blue, or green, upon grounds of the same colours to
match, sell from 1 to 1^ reals (Is. to 2s.) each. Others of a better texture,
spotted or flowered on a black, red, blue, green, or brown ground, with
borders to match, If yards square, sold for 44 to 5 reals (6<y. to 6s. 6rL).
A small sort, very coarse and flimsy, checked red, grey, yellow, green,
blue, or white, 4 to f of a yard square, sold as low as half a real.
The cotton goods chiefly manufactured are chintzes, or printed cottons,
and kalamkars, pirahan-i-shahis, kadaks, karbaz, Isfahan stripes, with
a few intermediate varieties.
Chintzes and prints are manufactured in many places ; but they are
coarse, both in texture and pattern, and are only used for inferior purposes.
The printed cottons of India and Europe, particularly the latter, had
superseded them so much, that the manufacturers were said to have peti
tioned: the king to prohibit further importations. A protective duty was
talked of ; but if such a measure were even put in practice, a very
improbable thing, it would be always and easily eluded. They are largely
exported to llussia.
Kalam-kars are that sort of print, the pattern of which consists of
wreathed and consecutive flowers in gay colours, sparsely thrown upon
a ground, white, blue, red, or fawn colour. They are used for particular
purposes, as inner vests, linings of robes, &c., and are often of high price,
according to the beauty of the pattern.
Pirahan-i-shahis (or ‘ king's shirts') resemble English longcloth, which
has entirely superseded them.
Kadaks are narrow cloths of a fabric resembling nankeen of all
colours, and of a size suited to make a single kaba, for which they are
entirely used. They cost from 3 to 6 reals (I*', to 8s.), according to
fineness. Those of Isfahan are most esteemed, and are largely exported
to Russia.
Stripes of Isfahan, another coarse cloth, striped blue, purple, or grey,
which cost about 2^ reals (3s. Eh) a piece, and are taken in great quantities
by the Russians.
Karbaz, a coarse white cloth of loose fabric, varying in quality.
It is used by the poorer classes in many articles of clothing, and as lining
for the garments of the better sorts. It is made lor home use m every
village, and an immense quantity is taken off by the Russians.
The woollen goods of Persia chiefly consist of carpets, namads, felted
goods, Karman shawls, and a variety of fabrics of smaller importance,
used by the inhabitants as clothing. _
Carpets are made in many places. Those of Herat, of Karman, Oj.
Yazd, ‘of Eurujird, of the Turkumans, of Khurasan, of Isfahan, and
Azavbaijan, are all beautiful, though of different fabric and pattern; and
though they are for the most part dear, I think they might answer as an
article of trade. . , ,
Namads, or fine felt carpets, are sometimes of great beauty, but they
are dear and apt to get' moth-eaten; and never having been introduced
in Europe, there is no saying how they might answer. The supply might