Kurdish carpets and Kilims come from Northern Syria and Iraq, Southern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran, as Kurdistan, the ancient homeland of the Kurdish peoples, has been assimilated into these five regions since the end of World War I. There are four major tribal clans of the Kurdish, many smaller tribal divisions which date back centuries and many Kurdish dialects. Carpet weaving is practiced in almost all of the the hundreds of Kurdish villages scattered through the region and many of the finest carpets and rugs coming from Senneh, Bidjar, and even Shiraz are Kurdish in origin.
