Picture Set Of The Month - March - Iranian Rugs

Baluchi rug - Baluchistan is a region of Iran, a country
far more known across the world for its rugs
and traditional arts like music, than for it's
reputation and arguments over oil since the 1920's.  

BP, British Petroleum had a controlling stake
in Iranian oil fields from the 1920s onward,
meanwhile most Iranians remained poor.   

 

But with Iran's contribution to world culture being 
 like this Kashkuli Gabbeh Hand-knotted Wool Rug,
so slow, with so much attention put into making it,
compared with American inattention forming media
of today I know who I would look at most the long run,