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The World`s Most expensive 16th Century Safavid Carpet The beautiful Clark Kerman sickleleaf! vine scroll and
palmette "vasetechni#ue$ carpet! %hich sold for &''!(6)!**!+'' Million ,sd&-almost .ve times hi/h estimate and far
outstrippin/ the previous auction record0+ ma/e courtesySotheby`s 2e% 3ork -
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This cut and voided velvet displays a ma4estic o/ival lattice composition surrounded by metal strips! no% lost in mostplaces0 Wellkno%n textile desi/ner and entrepreneur 5hiyath alin cali has added his si/nature! 7Work of 5hiyath!8%here ad4acent stems meet under the ei/htpointed star0 9 variety of ./ural and :oral compositions bear 5hiyath$sname! and their popularity and hi/h#uality craftsmanship are attested by the inclusion of approximately .fty of his
textiles in a diplomatic /ift sent by Shah c9bbas to the Mu/hal emperor 9kbar in the early seventeenth century0
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The best carpets in the %orld are undoubtedly are the 16the century ;ersian safavit carpet and itbecause of the /reat patrona/e that master %eavers %hose families had been involved for centuriesin this art0There %ere eminetn %eavers from the imperial %orksshops of Kashan like Mohtasham and
abeer! and other /reat %eavers from sfahan!Tehran!Kerman and 3e>d0Some ofthese carpets %ere made usin/ the .nest ;ashmina %ool %ith no bud/ets or time schedual 0Some
carpets could take upto 1* years to make and can cost fortunes0
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?ur ne% renditions of The eminent %eaver abeer of Kashan! ran in .ne Museum#uality knottin/ and intricate ;ersian craftsmanship
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1) Tantine and slamic%eavin/ centres of the early middle a/es! %hich %ere some of the most le/aland opulent art amasks derive their name from the city of amascus and %ere
produced in 1)th century taly
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Takin/ inspirations from the %orld reno%ned damask textiles made in the 1)th Century 0These desi/ns %ere also createdas %all papers for @uropean palaces and 9ristocracy and %ere commonly produced in monochromatic %eaves in silk andlinen0 We are usin/ a combination of the .nest silk and %ool the desi/n part bein/ silk and the %ool part as the base0 t isa play of texture %here silk is shiny %hilst the %ool is more matted in feel0 The involves cut %ork %here in the silk desi/n
part appears imbost on the %ool area /ivin/ an impression of the carpet bein/ ' dimensional and uber soft0
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Kat is a %eavin/ style common to many %orld cultures! likely it is oneof the oldest forms of textile decoration in Central! South 9merica and9sia0 n the 1th Century! the silk road desert oases of Bukhara!
Samarkand! Khotan and Kash/ar %ere famous for their .ne silk u>bek D,y/hur kat0These %ere also done in ndia as %ell as south east 9siancountries like ndonesia and %ere handmade on a handloom0
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Made usin/ the .nest 9ustralian and 2e% Eealand%ool 0We have recreated these old desi/ns to create aneliment of drama and statement in todays moderninteriors %here people are lookin/ for somethin/
diFerent and dramatic a%ay from the minimalisticcontemporary aesthetic 0
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Berber carpets are named for the traditional hand%oven carpets of the Tribal 2omadic Berber people of 9frica0 Thehandspun cloth they created %as named after the tribe! and they used natural .bres to create cloaks! ru/s and other
fabrics0Moroccan ru/s have a very bohemian sheek ed4e to them as they are tribal and have this err/ularity andinformality to them0There are no /raphs or nakshas and are made by the vivid ima/ination of these /lorious people0The
colors tent to be bri/ht or vivid and at times are very monchromatic %hich is a /ro%in/ trend these days in modernhomes0These are made out of .ne %ool %ith lon/ hair and are popular in the .nest 2e% 3ork studio apartments0
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Erased Luxe Carpets have distinct designs and colors of a classical rugs But a portion of the designs have been
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Erased Luxe Carpets have distinct designs and colors of a classical rugs.But a portion of the designs have been
erased allowing the subtle design to come in and out of focus.These designs are inspired by a few paintings of
a well renowned artist Ram Kumar who was born in himla . Ram Kumar!s canvases bespo"e of stories of city
dwellers# mostly migrants and the lowly# along with panoramic views of the cityscapes and landscapes.
$ssociated with the %rogressive $rtists!&roup# his preoccupation with the human condition intrigued him#
bringing him to this topic constantly# mixing and tensing both the figurative and abstract 0
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