Persian Kashan

This beautiful Persian hand-knotted rug is known as Kashan, that is the name of an ancient city in the central part of Persia( modern Iran). Kashan carpets and rugs are very well known for the diversity of beautiful designs, long-lasting and high density of knots. Kashan has achieved its popularity over a long history of Producing handmade carpets and rugs. There is a Kashan grand masterpiece in the V & A museum in London with sheikh Safi design and it is over four hundreds years old. Having said that, as the result of the popularity of Kashan carpets and rugs in the world, copy of Kashan patterns are produced in Pakistan, India and China but the prices are at least 30% cheaper than the original Kashan.

The design of this Kashan handwoven carpet is known as Tabatabaee medallion classic. Tabatabaee is a famous brand in Kashan. It is made of very fine pure wool pile and cotton weft (fringe). It has 169 knots per square inch. Its is almost  244 inch x 157 inch =38,308 square inch

38,308 x 169 = 6,474,052 total number of the knots of this carpet.

a Craftsman with an average speed can manage to weave around 8000-10000 knots per 8 hours work in a day, so if we divide the total number of knots 23942500 to 10000 per day = 647 days for a craftsman to weave this carpet.
weaving is the last of four professions that are involved in producing a carpet or a rug. The other three skills are drawing the design and colouring in, dying the material, and making the loom.

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