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Persian · All-over Floral
A paradise garden rendered entirely in silk. At 680 knots per square inch the individual blossoms resolve only when you kneel to look — which is precisely the point.
Uses your phone camera to place this carpet to scale. No app needed.
Maryam Sadeghi
27 years at the loom in Kashan, Isfahan. We have bought from this workshop since 2011 and pay the price they set.
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This piece is woven at 680 knots per square inch, which works out at roughly 3,478,207 knots in total — every one tied by hand by Maryam Sadeghi, over 22 months.
Magnify past 13× and the field stops being a picture and becomes what it actually is: rows of individual knots, each one a decision about colour made at a particular moment.
The same test works in the shop, on any carpet, with no equipment. We wrote up how to do it in the back of the rug tells you everything.
Similar origin, weave and palette.