The Blood of Flowers – takes place in 17th century Isfahan, Persia. There, a young village woman goes to work as a servant for her uncle, a rug designer for the Shah. Like the mystery woman in The Carpet Weaver of Isfahan, she, too, begins designing carpets, while – like Scheherazade – she also weaves tales to tell the man she has been forced to marry. Her extraordinary talents, however, free her to live her own life, designed – like her carpets – as she imagines it.