RUG INFO

Contemporary Period

Disregard of large carpets in history, the honor of production of three large carpets belongs to Iran, Khorasan and Neishabour historic cities.
 Particulars of these three:
1- 5700 meter carpet, 132m long and 42-48 m wide, with thousand millions of knots located at Sheykh Zayed mosque in Abo Zabi, UAE, is the largest handmade carpet woven by Neishabour carpet weavers. In this carpet woven in three carpet-weaving workshops equipped with largest looms of the world, 38 tones of the highest quality Sirjan and New Zealand wool is used and 1200 carpet weavers have worked on it. It was inspired by genuine carpet designs and Islamic conspicuous decoration. The job was up to Iran Carpet Co.
2- Sultan Ghabous is the second largest carpet ordered by Sultan Ghabous, king of Omman, woven by Iran Carpet Co. with 4343 m2 dimensions, about 35 knots per cm2, covers an area over 4347.
Central part of this carpet is tailored to the interior of Sheykh Lotfollah mosque. The weaving of this carpet began since 1996 and ended up after three years. 4347 m2 surface area of the carpet is created by 1.7 milliard knots. Iran Carpet Co. employed 600 workers including 500 weavers to weave the carpet for three years. Its weight is about 22 tones and is now the adornment of the main site of one of the biggest mosques in the world in Masghat, Omman Capital.
3- The third largest carpet being woven in Neishabour with the surface area of 2500 m2 is ordered by Mohammad Al Yamin mosque. The weaving of this carpet done by 200 weavers in two workshops will last for the next two years. The design is flower medallion, a combination of Isfahan- Tabriz carpet designing. This carpet has 7 central medallions and 7 small corners taken from Iranian traditional custom (Haftsin).
The distinction of this carpet with the two abovementioned carpets is high density (40 counts of row), more silk used and other technical issues in addition to execution by private sector.

Although carpet production is now mostly mechanized, traditional hand woven carpets are still widely found all around the world, and usually have higher prices than their machine woven counterparts due to them being an artistic presentation. Iran exported $517 million worth of hand woven carpets in 2002. Iran's carpet exports amounted to US$635 million in 2005, according to the figures from the state-owned Iran Carpet Company. Most are top-notch hand-woven products. Nearly five million workers are engaged in the Iranian carpet industry, making it one of the biggest enterprises in the country.
In recent times Iranian carpets have come under fierce competition from other countries producing fakes of the original Iranian designs as well as genuine cheaper substitutes. Most of the problems facing this traditional art is due to absence of patenting and branding the products as well as reduced quality of raw materials in the local market and the consistent loss of original design patterns. The absence of modern R&D, is causing rapid decline in the size as well as market value of this art.To give one example, the "Carpet of Wonder" in the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, it has big rug art in the big Mosque in the word .

The first of big rug

This masque located in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates.
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque was initiated by the late President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. As the country’s grand mosque, it is the key place of worship for Friday gathering and Eid prayers. It is the largest mosque in the UAE and numbers during Eid can be more than forty thousand people.  Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center (SZGMC) offices are located in the east minarets. SZGMC manages the day to day operations, as a place of worship and Friday gathering and also a center of learning and discovery through its educational cultural activities and visitor programs. The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque has many special and unique elements: The carpet in the main prayer hall is considered to be the big rug made by Iran's Carpet Company and designed by Iranian artist . Maryam Taheri as one of the designers of this project has worked in the big rug.
This carpet measures 5,627 m2 (60,570 sq ft), and was made by around 1,200-1,300 carpet knotters. The weight of this carpet is 35 ton and is predominantly made from12 ton cotton and 35 ton wool (originating from New Zealand and Iran). There are 2,268,000,000 knots within the carpet and it took approximately two years to complete. This big rug art was woven by 1200 woven worker, 30 worker , 20 technician, resulting in 3million man hours of work.
Maryam  Taheri   was one of the designer of  Iran Carpet Company, has been a colleague in the design stain in the first  great carpet.At this time she is responsible for the Big Rug Art company  Design Management.

The second of big rug

In 1992 Sultan Qaboos directed that his country of Oman should have a Grand Mosque. The Mosque is built from 300,000 tones Indian sandstone. The prayer hall is square (external dimensions 74.4 x 74.4 metres) with a central dome rising to a height of fifty metres above the floor. The dome and the main minaret (90 metres) and four flanking minarets (45.5 metres) are the mosque’s chief visual features. The prayer hall can hold over 6,500 worshippers, while the women’s prayer hall can accommodate 750 worshipers. The outer paved ground can hold 8,000 worshipers and there is additional space available in the interior courtyard and the passageways, making a total capacity of up to 20,000 worshipers. Fortunately this nice masque covered by the unique big rug of IRAN.
A major feature of the design of the interior is the prayer carpet which covers the floor of the prayer hall. It contains, 1,700,000 knots, weighs 21 tonnes and took four years to produce, and brings together the classical Tabriz, Kashan and Isfahan design traditions. 28 colors in varying shades were used, the majority obtained from traditional vegetable dyes. It is the second big rug in the world. This hand-woven carpet was produced by Iran Carpet Company (ICC).
This big rug woven in about 4,343 square meters. Its construction required four years of labor by 600 workers, resulting in 12 million man hours of work. Maryam Taheri as one of the designers of this project and this time she is responsible for the Big Rug Art company  Design Management.