Every Iranian carpet has thousands of stories and tells the story of a city and a region of Iran. Join us and get to know more about the types of Iranian carpets, especially hand-woven nomadic carpets.
- The oldest carpet in the world
Pazyrik is 2500 years old and in 1328 AD (1949 AD) Sergei Rudenko discovered the grave of the Scythian kings in Siberia and recognized it as Iranian due to the similarity of its pattern with the prominent motifs of Persepolis.
Raw materials: wool, dimensions: 1 meter and 98 cm by 1 meter and 89 cm
Character: horsemen, grazing deer, mythical beasts with lion's body and eagle's head with floral border
- The biggest carpet in the world
1. Neishabour handwoven carpet, in the Sheikh Zayed Mosque of Abu Dhabi, weaving 1200 carpet weavers in 18 months.
Raw materials: 38 tons of the best fibers from Sirjan and New Zealand wool - two billion and three hundred million knots
Dimensions: 132 meters long and 42 to 48 meters wide (six thousand square meters)
2. Muscat city mosque carpet commissioned by Sultan Qaboos, King of Oman, with 500 weavers and 12 million working hours, with an area of 4343 square meters.
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1. Weis Kerman carpet belonging to the 16th century with a value equal to ten million dollars was sold in 2010 at a price 20 times the suggested price. 2. Isfahan silk carpet belonging to the 16th century, value: 4 million and 450 thousand dollars 3. Another silk carpet from the Safavid era belonging to Azrash 400 years ago: nearly 4 million dollars 4. Tabriz carpet belonging to the 16th century, value: equivalent to 2 million and 400 thousand dollars.
source: Iran National Carpet Center |