Largest Handmade Carpet In The World

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Largest handmade carpet in the world.

The 60 546 square foot carpet took more than a thousand weavers over a year to complete. The portuguese armorial carpet sold for 80 500 usd making it the eighth most expensive carpet in the world. Though in recent times this ancient tradition has come under stiff competition from machine made products. That s right the rug that holds this impressive record is 133 meters long 41 meters broad and has a total area of 5 453 square meters or 60 468 square feet.

Of course the empire of persia was dominating most of south east asia but persia is now the biggest country in this region. As a direct successor of persia is considered the country of iran. Over 14 years in the making by 17 artists and weavers. The incredible story behind the world s largest rug.

The carpet would have been. Amazing unique piece of art. This makes around 40 of the complete carpet trading in the world which makes india the most valuable player in the carpet world. This square cut rug features an elaborate border with oscillating patterns orientated around a single square medallion in the centre.

The designs of persian carpets are copied by weavers from other countries as well. The carpet in the main prayer hall is considered who to be the world s largest carpet made by iran s carpet company and designed by iranian artist ali khaliqi. This carpet measures 5 627 m 2 60 570 sq ft and. 400 square meters in size makes this a unique work of art.

It was created for the abu dhabi mosque and was measured in abu dhabi uae in 2007. 1 st largest persian rug. Most of the time we can say that handmade carpets are more costly in comparison to machine made. When you think of the largest persian rugs in the world how big do you even imagine it would be.

The largest hand woven carpet measures 5 630 m 60 600 81 ft and was manufactured by the iran carpet company iran. It can be hard to imagine but the world s largest rug is the size of a soccer field. Iran is also the world s largest producer and exporter of handmade carpets producing three quarters of the world s total output.