Dorokhsh is a village located on a hill in north east of Birjand. Following terrible earthquake happened in 1965 in this area, people left this village.
In last decades of nineteenth century in Dorokhsh lots of rugs were woven and these rugs mostly were woven to release in Europe market. Dorokhsh rugs are delicate and massive and considered as the best and most beautiful rugs in Khorasan. The basic decoration element in these rugs is paisley that are woven in regular rows in dense background and each rows of paisleys are woven in opposite direction. Mostly paisleys are green and woven on crimson background and also samples with blue or black background can be found.
Sometimes combination of paisley around little bergamots or central rectangular shape are woven.
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