World's biggest Persian carpet

Iran is well known for its Persian carpets and attracts buyers all over the world. This carpet, although it can’t fly, is impressive nonetheless.

It is the world’s biggest carpet and was introduced by Dschalaleddin Bassam, the director of the national manufactory, in August last year. Its surface is 5,625 square metres and is handmade by 1,200 people from three different villages from the North-East of Iran. It took them one and a half years to put this 38 tons heavy carpet together. The carpet, of the size of a football ground, required 2,2 Billion knots until it was finished and costs 4,2 Million Euro. It will be used in a mosque in Abu Dhabi.
In the future it is planned to provide carpets of such dimensions for other Gulf States like Oman.


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