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Persian · Medallion
The Mahi, or 'fish', pattern has been woven in Tabriz since the sixteenth century. Hossein's workshop still ties each knot on a vertical loom his grandfather built, working from a cartoon drawn by hand rather than printed.
Uses your phone camera to place this carpet to scale. No app needed.
Hossein Rahimi
34 years at the loom in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan. We have bought from this workshop since 2011 and pay the price they set.
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This piece is woven at 420 knots per square inch, which works out at roughly 3,906,008 knots in total — every one tied by hand by Hossein Rahimi, over 14 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.