Iran News - Damab carpet workshop filed on Nat'l Heritage: "Damab carpet workshop filed on Nat'l Heritage
Thursday, June 23, 2005 - ©2005 IranMania.com
LONDON, June 23 (IranMania) - The Damab carpet workshop was recently registered on Iran?s National Heritage List by the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization (CHTO).
The workshop, in which the world?s largest carpet was woven, is located in Damab village, northwest of Isfahan.
The 42 x 31 meter carpet was woven by 40 weavers over the course of four years, and it was completed in 1987. Valiollah Shahri designed the carpet.
The carpet was originally purchased by a Swedish dealer. Iranian experts believe that the carpet was later sold to a Kuwaiti industrialist and was probably partly damaged and burnt during the Iraq-Kuwait war. The fate of the carpet is still unknown.
Two other sites in the village of Damab, the house of village headman Mohammad-Taqi, which dates back to the Qajar era, and a 200-year-old Hosseinieh (site for religious ceremonies), were also registered on the National Heritage List."
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