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"The Khamseh tribes were a mixture of Turks, Luri, and Arabs, but they all came to be called Arabs in contrast to the Turkic Qashqai."
Wikipedia
To clear things up a bit regarding where these weavings were made in relation to each other, it might help to have a map. I haven't found one which specifically shows all the tribes, their territories and migration routes, but here is a small version of a language map from a blog site on Iran news, Usowski on Iran:




To see the full size:


This shows a bit more clearly the wide dispersion of the Afshar, the vicinity of the Bakhtiari in the north, the Luri in the middle and how the Khamseh are stuck in between the southern Afshar and the Qashqai.
Print it off on a full size printer and tack it to the wall behind your computer as a handy reference!

Patrick Weiler

Pat,

Great map. Looks fab next to the monitor.

Here's the map from Opie's Tribal Rugs of Southern Persia to supplement. It has some of the info on the tribes' summer and winter grazing areas.








Joel