A superfine Persian design rug

Creating such a rug starts long before the weavers embark on their year-long journey to craft this marvelous piece. The weavers must tie nearly eight million knots to complete the rug. However, to achieve the highly intricate curvilinear pattern perfectly, they need a draft to follow. These so-called "cartoons" are graph papers where every square represents a knot. Therefore, the designer must translate her idea into coloured squares, a process that could take weeks and, in this case, months to complete.

Multiple people work on spinning and dyeing the yarn in parallel, which is also a time-consuming process. Hence, by the time the first knot is tied, months of work have already gone into preparing the design and materials.

Such hard work wouldn't be possible without a devotion to a long-held tradition, which is a source of national pride for Persian weavers who undertake this labour beyond the realm of material satisfaction.

This carpet is a Tabriz in wool and silk pile on a silk base.

Made in Turkey