Each Armenian home had a wine making room.  I remember that there was a series of pipes that came down from the ceiling in the wine-making room, but my memory fails me after that.  The Armenians were the wine producers of Iran.  Although wine has been a major part of Iranian culture for centuries, Islam forbids the drinking of wine, but the Armenian Christians officially used the home-produced wine for communion and other religious services and it was permitted. 

The Armenians cultivated the land and produced wines for years in Lilan until relocating elsewhere.  That same soil that produced the fine wine grapes also produces the vegetation master weavers use for making Oriental rug dyes.  And just like the unique soil characteristics that produce Vidalia onions, the Lilan soil renders a distinctive deep pink found in the famous Lilihan rugs. 

Like other special identifying features of Oriental rugs, the characteristic color of Lilihan rugs makes it easily identifyable, even for the novice.                        ~ Ahmad