The World's Largest Carpet is Worth $5.8 Million

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed)
Aug 9th 2007 at 10:03AM

The list of "things Iran has that the U.S. doesn't" is a pretty short one, but one item to be found on it would be this: the world's largest handmade carpet. At 60,546 sq ft the carpet is larger than a soccer field and took 18 months and 1,200 weavers to make. Red and green in color, it was created and assembled from 9 individual sections and has over 2.2 billion knots.

So where does a rug of this size find a home? Well this one, worth an estimated $5.8 million, is destined for a mosque in the United Arab Emirates.

Via Born Rich

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mrdickieweed Aug 10th 2007 6:41PM

I used to work for this Saudi family in Beverly Hills....they had a hand made Persian carpet worth almost a million dollars, and of course didn't want ordinary house cats urinating on it, so they'd fly in big exspensive tigers to do it...