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| Pile | Good Wool, rarely with Camel hair. Clipped Long | Designs | Geometric, Medallion, Herati, Boteh, Allover Floral | | Warp/Weft | Cotton or Wool / Cotton or Wool | Colours | Reds, Blues, Whites, Gold, Yellows, | | Knots | Turkish - 30 to 100 knots per sq in | Tribal | Village |
The city of Hamadan is one of the oldest cities situated on the plateau in West Central Persia; known to the Assyrians as Agamtana, its ancient origin can be traced back to the second millennium BC.
The modern city, having a new university is a thriving commercial centre playing an important role in the carpet industry since it serves as the market centre for hundreds of villages in the surrounding plain and also as the base for buyers who cover a wide area of Western Iran.
There is also a small production in the town itself. The Hamadan village region has one unifying and unmistakable characteristic; all its products (with only the rarest of exceptions) are single-wefted, and woven with the Turkish knots on cotton warps and wefts. For the most part they are also relatively coarse and in many cases quite cheap.
A few villages make large size rugs and carpets but smaller rugs predominate, with one or two areas specializing also in runners. There are relatively few centres of production employing the single weft in their weaving, for example, Kolyai, Senneh, Bakhtiar, Karaja, Daghestan, Pakistan and India ( found also in some old Chinese rugs) and most of these have very distinctive features which make indentification easy. Should a single wefted rug not fall into any of these categories it could be classified with almost certainty as a Hamadan.
The group heading to denote origin of a mixture of these rugs from different regions of Hamadan and those whose origins cannot be identified are called "Mousel". Rugs of specific size of around 200x100 cm also called Mousel.
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