Largest Persian Carpet In The World

Iran carpet company with more 70 years of persian rug weaving history is the contactor of this huge carpet.

Largest persian carpet in the world.

Radiocarbon testing showed that it was woven 2 400 2 500 years ago. It will be made for the shaikh zayed mosque in abu dhabi. When you think of the largest persian rugs in the world how big do you even imagine it would be. 2 nd largest rug.

The oldest persian carpet in the world was found in altai. Its length and breadth dimensions stand at 70 meters x 60 meters. More than 1 200 village women have started weaving a giant carpet worth 8 5 million that will be the world s largest hand knotted carpet ever. It can be hard to imagine but the world s largest rug is the size of a soccer field.

1 st largest persian rug. The incredible story behind the world s largest rug. The carpet was discovered during an archaeological excavation from the grave of a scythian nobleman in 1949 in the pazyryk valley in the altai mountains of siberia. This rug occupies a floor area of 5 000 square meters and weighs 22 tons.

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. The carpet was created in 9 parts and assembled in the mosque. The world s largest carpet. 71 the carpet of wonder in the sultan qaboos grand mosque in muscat in the sultanate of oman measures 4 343 square metres 46 750 square feet.

So it is considered to be the oldest. Persia the ancient persian name of iran boasts to be the world s most superior culture in carpet manufacturing the art of weaving and dying is inherited and carpets of all styles and sizes are made here. The map showing some important persian carpet manufacturing areas. The most expensive carpet in the world is a 17th century persian vase style carpet afshar collection which was sold in june 2013 in an london auction for 33 8m.

The 60 546 square foot carpet took more than a thousand weavers over a year to complete.