The largest carpet in the world
Carpets can be found in almost every home. They can be either small or covering almost the entire area of the room. However, there are floor coverings whose size is amazing.
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The largest handmade carpet
When visiting various public places, for example, art galleries, you can see carpets that cover more than one square meter of space. But they all pale in comparison to the fabric made entirely by hand by hardworking weavers from Iran in the city of Nishapur. As you know, it is in this country that the largest number of handmade carpets are produced.
REFERENCE! This flooring, unusual in size, was made by order of UAE Sheikh Zayed and is now located in Abu Dhabi in his personal mosque. By the way, this temple is the largest in area throughout the Emirates, and is also their main shrine.
The area of the giant product is 5627 square meters, the size is 48 x 133 meters, and the weight is more than 48 tons. The cost of the product is 700,000,000 US dollars.
Its entire surface is covered with Persian patterns, made in a traditional style.
When examining the product, representatives of the Guinness Book of Records made calculations. It turned out that the weavers made more than 2 billion knots when making the fabric. Considering that 1,200 workers worked on it, each of them tied an average of one million one hundred and sixty thousand knots.Work on the giant canvas took more than a year and a half. The hard and painstaking work of the weavers was very highly appreciated and paid - the total amount was 2,300,000 US dollars.
If you look at the canvas from the side, it looks very similar to a football field with an extremely unusual pattern. So that the covering could be delivered to the required location, 9 separate parts were initially woven, and after transportation they were sewn into one product.
Now the giant carpet is one of the attractions of the Emirates and a large number of tourists strive to see and capture it.
What other carpets are known for their size?
The longest floor covering in the world was made in China, in the Xinjiang Uyghur province. It is also completely handmade. About 700 weavers worked on its production. The carpet was woven using ancient technology, and it took more than 1.5 tons of thread to make it. The length of the product was 1160 m, the width was approximately half a meter.
No less famous carpets are kept in the only “Carpet Museum” located in Ashgabat. So, there is a carpet there that used to occupy first place in the Guinness Book of Records, until it was displaced from its pedestal by a carpet from Abu Dhabi. The area of this product is 301 square meters.
