Iran to Become Insanely-Large-Carpet Capital of the World

Posted by TheGoodReverend in Everything Else on August 1, 2007 at 8:20 am


Carpet

Iranian weavers have created what they claim is the world’s largest handmade carpet, a soccer-field-sized red-and-green colossus bound for an Abu Dhabi mosque and valued at $5.8 million. But Iranians are setting their sights even higher:

[Jalaleddin Bassam, the head of Iran's state carpet company,] said the carpet was an important commission for Iran’s carpet-making industry, and said it could lead to further orders.

“Iran is in talks to make similar carpets for Oman and other Gulf countries,” he told Agence France-Presse.

Link – via Fortean Times


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6 comments to "Iran to Become Insanely-Large-Carpet Capital of the World"

  1. Vonskippy
    August 1st, 2007 at 11:29 am

    Glad to see they have their priorities straight.

  2. Sid Morrison
    August 1st, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    Hey, it is better than chopping people's heads off or financing terrorism. "Build rugs, not A-bombs!"

  3. Kalel
    August 1st, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    If certain powers have their way, we may see some true 'carpet bombing' soon.

  4. Sid Morrison
    August 1st, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    Kalel: dude... excellent punning --- I wish I thought of it! Yes, keep your fingers crossed... maybe we will get to see them reduced to a smouldering ash heap. How well they control their mischief may depend on who wins the US Presidential election next year.

  5. Nora
    August 1st, 2007 at 6:18 pm

    Sorry Pixelman, your rug is in another castle.

  6. L
    August 1st, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    What... are they making a carpet to cover all of Oman? It is a small country...


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