Largest Persian Carpet In The World

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.

Largest persian carpet in the world.

This rug occupies a floor area of 5 000 square meters and weighs 22 tons. Radiocarbon testing showed that it was woven 2 400 2 500 years ago. The world s largest carpet. 1 st largest persian rug.

It was created for the abu dhabi mosque and was measured in abu dhabi uae in 2007. The oldest persian carpet in the world was found in altai. 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. When you think of the largest persian rugs in the world how big do you even imagine it would be.

Before the rug for the abu dhabi mosque was commissioned the record for the world s largest rug was held by the rug in a mosque in muscat oman. 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 map showing some important persian carpet manufacturing areas. The 60 546 square foot carpet took more than a thousand weavers over a year to complete.

The carpet was created in 9 parts and assembled in the mosque. It can be hard to imagine but the world s largest rug is the size of a soccer field. 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. The largest hand woven carpet measures 5 630 m 60 600 81 ft and was manufactured by the iran carpet company iran.

Its length and breadth dimensions stand at 70 meters x 60 meters. It will be made for the shaikh zayed mosque in abu dhabi. So it is considered to be the oldest. The incredible story behind the world s largest rug.

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