01 · Persian
Karim Ahmadi
Bijar, Kurdistan
- Years at the loom
- 52
- Finest weave held
- 300 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 28
The Artisans
Every carpet in this shop was made by someone we have met
There is no wholesaler between these 14 workshops and our floor. We travel to them, we buy what they have finished, and we put their name on it — which is why you will find a person rather than a country on every label.
- Workshops we buy from
- 14Workshops we buy from
- Weaving traditions
- 5Weaving traditions
- Combined years at the loom
- 436Combined years at the loom
- Carpets currently held
- 18Carpets currently held
How we buy
The trade has a long habit of paying weavers last and least. These are the three rules we will not bend, and we are happy to be held to them.
The weaver sets the price
We do not negotiate down. The number a workshop quotes is the number we pay, and our margin sits on top of it rather than inside it.
Paid on collection, in full
No consignment, no thirty-day terms. A workshop that has spent a year on a carpet should not also finance our stock.
We come back
Twice a year, to the same benches. Most of these relationships are older than our shop on Marylebone High Street.
The register
Longest at the loom first. Where a weaver appears twice it is because they work across two towns, not two workshops.
02 · Persian
Reza Mirzaei
Isfahan · Nain, Isfahan
- Years at the loom
- 46
- Finest weave held
- 750 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 67
The 2 pieces we hold
03 · Afghan
Abdul Wahid Noori
Herat Province
- Years at the loom
- 41
- Finest weave held
- 180 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 7
The piece we hold
04 · Kashmiri
Bashir Ahmad Khan
Srinagar
- Years at the loom
- 38
- Finest weave held
- 600 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 22
The 2 pieces we hold
05 · Persian
Parviz Qashqai
Fars Province
- Years at the loom
- 35
- Finest weave held
- 90 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 4
The piece we hold
06 · Persian
Hossein Rahimi
Tabriz, East Azerbaijan · Heris, East Azerbaijan
- Years at the loom
- 34
- Finest weave held
- 420 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 30
The 2 pieces we hold
07 · Anatolian
Mehmet Yıldırım
Uşak, Aegean
- Years at the loom
- 31
- Finest weave held
- 160 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 8
The piece we hold
08 · Afghan
Nasrullah Barakzai
Mazar-i-Sharif
- Years at the loom
- 29
- Finest weave held
- 220 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 12
The piece we hold
09 · Persian
Maryam Sadeghi
Kashan, Isfahan
- Years at the loom
- 27
- Finest weave held
- 680 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 22
The piece we hold
10 · Afghan
Gulbadan Rahmani
Farah Province
- Years at the loom
- 24
- Finest weave held
- 200 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 6
The piece we hold
11 · Moroccan
Fatima Ait Brahim
Middle Atlas
- Years at the loom
- 23
- Finest weave held
- 120 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 5
The piece we hold
12 · Persian
Zahra Hosseini
Qum
- Years at the loom
- 21
- Finest weave held
- 900 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 19
The piece we hold
13 · Anatolian
Elif Demirtaş
Hereke, Kocaeli
- Years at the loom
- 19
- Finest weave held
- 800 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 26
The 2 pieces we hold
14 · Moroccan
Khadija Oulhaj
Azilal, High Atlas
- Years at the loom
- 16
- Finest weave held
- 100 KPSI
- Loom months, these pieces
- 3
The piece we hold
Want something woven for you, rather than chosen from stock?
Any of these workshops will take a commission. Tell us the room and we will tell you who is free, what it costs and how long it takes.