A FINE SILK AND METAL THREAD "SOUF" KASHAN RUG, the sandy-yellow silver thread field with scrolling polychrome palmettes, flower-heads and serrated leaves around arabesque lozenge medallion with palmette pendants containing similar smaller centrepiece, open arabesque and floral vine spandrels in metal thread border of multicolour palmettes, meandering arabesques and floral vines, between rust and ivory flower-head vine stripes, outer plain stripe, short kelim at each end (slight wear in places)