Persian Carpet Society

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The Persian Carpet Society (PETAG) was a German company founded in 1911 to manufacture and trade Persian carpets . The company went out today.

history

Pattern making of the Persian Carpet Society (Tabriz)

PETAG was founded on September 14, 1911 in Berlin as Persische Teppich-Gesellschaft Actiengesellschaft by Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964). She established branches in the northwestern part of Tabriz , where she used traditional colors and patterns to produce high-quality carpets and revived a traditional art of knotting and dyeing. For this purpose, a modern factory was set up, which had a wool spinning and dyeing mill.

Hand -knotted carpets for worldwide trade were obtained from a large-scale manufacture in Tabriz in Northern Iran and neighboring areas. These were sold in Europe and the USA , where many branches and agencies were set up. Before 1918, PETAG was the only well-known direct importer of Persian carpets to Germany. According to the taste and culture of the buyer countries, production was commissioned and monitored directly in the country of origin. The carpets were knotted with classic models dyed in vegetable colors. These carpets are qualified with the names Pertovi , Hamajun , Teimuri , Rustem and Cyrus , depending on their knot density . Heinrich Jacoby wrote the standard work ABC of the real carpet , published by Wasmuth-Verlag in 1949 . The diversity of the range of carpets sometimes meant that almost all Tabriz carpets were referred to as "Petag carpets", because this brand guaranteed good quality.

After 1945 Jacoby moved the company to Heidelberg and at the end of 1952 to Frankfurt am Main . In 1959 the company was transferred to the Persische Teppich-Gesellschaft KG H. Jacoby in Frankfurt. The general partner was Heiner Jacoby, who had previously served on the board with his father Heinrich for decades and who was chairman of the Association of German Importers of Oriental Carpets in the 1960s . Heiner Jacoby died on June 17, 2015 at the age of 95.

Occasionally, Petag carpets can be found in auction shops .

See also

literature

  • Heinrich Jacoby: A collection of oriental carpets; Contribution to the history of the oriental carpet on the basis of 47 knots from the last 4 centuries collected by the Persian Carpet Society. Schmidt & Günther, Leipzig 1923. (Reprint: Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-17241691-2 )
  • Heinrich Jacoby: Persian Carpet Society AG 1911-1936. 1936.
  • Heinrich Jacoby: How to Know Oriental Carpets and Rugs. George Allen & Unwin, London 1952.
  • SA Milhofer: Oriental carpets. Torchbearer Publishing House, 1966.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Professor Dr. Ludwig Erhard, Iran and Us: History of German-Iranian Trade and Economic Relations. With a foreword from the Federal Minister of Economics
  2. ^ Herbert Mueller: Der Neue Orient , Volume 4, Verlag "Der Neue Orient", 1918, p. 382
  3. ↑ Reinhard G. Hubel: The book of carpets , Barrie & Jenkins, 1970, p. 11
  4. ↑ Millhofer, p. 117 (see lit.)
  5. ↑ Josef Günther Lettenmair, The large oriental carpet book
  6. ↑ website of Christie's New York