Carpets can be found in almost every home. They are both small and covering almost the entire area of the room. However, there are floor coverings that are astounding in size.
The largest handmade rug
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- The largest handmade rug
- What other carpets are known for their size
Visiting various public places, such as art galleries, you can see carpet paths that cover more than one square meter of space. But they all fade in front of the canvas, made entirely by hand of the hardworking weavers from Iran in the city of Nishapur. As you know, it is on the territory of this country that the largest number of handmade carpets is produced.
REFERENCE! This unusual in size flooring was commissioned by the Sheikh of the UAE, Zayed, and is now located in his personal mosque in Abu Dhabi. 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 inspecting the product, representatives of the Guinness Book of Records made calculations. It turned out that the weavers made more than 2 billion knots in the manufacture of 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 a giant canvas took more than a year and a half. The hard and painstaking work of the weavers was highly appreciated and paid - the total amount amounted to 2,300,000 US dollars.
If you look at the canvas from the side, then it looks very similar to a football field with an extremely unusual pattern. So that the coating could be delivered to the required place, initially nine parts were woven, and after transportation they were sewn into one product.
Now a giant carpet is one of the attractions of the Emirates and a large number of tourists are eager to see and capture it.
What other carpets are known for their size
The longest flooring in the world was made in China, in the Xinjiang Uygur province. It is also fully handmade. About 700 weavers worked on its manufacture. The carpet was woven according to old technology, and its production took more than 1.5 tons of thread. The length of the product was 1160 m, the width is approximately half a meter.
No less famous carpets are kept in the only “Museum of Carpets” located in Ashgabat. So, there is a coating that used to take first place in the Guinness Book of Records, until it was removed from the pedestal by a carpet from Abu Dhabi. The area of this product is 301 square meter.
