A Fact Sheet of Origin
Kashmir is located in the middle section of the Silk Road and the western half of the Himalayan Mountain region. It lies between the borders of China, India and Pakistan, and was once a scenic tourist location famed as “The Switzerland of South Asia”.
Kashmir is well-known around the world for her long history of exporting premium pashmina. With a predominantly agrarian economy, the handicraft industry is a major source of employment for locals. The Kashmiris have developed unparalleled expertise in weaving and making premium pashmina scarves and handmade silk carpets. The artisans in Kashmir believe that years of hard work and dedication to their craft will be rewarded.
Kashmiri Custom
* The Best Gift For Their Children *
In Kashmir, when a boy is born, her parents will start weaving a mulberry silk perisan carpet until he comes of age and is ready for marriage. The completed Persian Silk Carpet will be offered as part of the gift, carrying all the family blessings and love.
Unparalleled Comfort Silk Carpet
Ancient Persian nobles demanded maximum comfort when it came to carpets. Therefore, the evolution of Persian carpets from tribes, villages, cities to royal palaces led to an upgrade of material from cotton and linen to wool, and gradually to the most premium mulberry silk. Especially in the palaces, people discovered that even the large animal hides obtained from labour-intensive hunts cannot rival the soft touch and texture of silk carpets.
Mulberry silk is the lightest, softest and finest natural fibre from nature. It has the best springiness and is hence wrinkle-resistant, helping it keep shape and offer the most refined and delicate texture, earning it the prestige as “the body’s second skin”. Renowned for its light and breathable properties, mulberry silk is also resistant to mites and odour, giving birth to ever-lasting products that can be passed down for generations.
Icing the Cake for your
Home Furnishing Silk Carpet
In interior design for luxury homes, carpets are regarded as “the fifth wall”, contributing the largest source of colours to the room. A carpet’s colour theme sets the tone for the overall design, not only because of the size of the carpet, but more importantly, because of its anchoring function to a room’s interior design style.
Persian silk carpets are colourful and unique, often woven with intricate geometric patterns shrounded in rich cultural history and carrying pure blessing to their owners. Persian carpets have a unique silky shine with changing hues when viewed from different angles under different lights, granting the carpets a mysterious and elegant charms. The silk fibre is delicate and light, and with skilful techniques, can be woven into artistic masterpieces unrivalled by other carpets.
TABRIZ
The Tabriz style is named after the second largest city in Iran with the same name, which is also known as “The Home of Persian Carpets”.
Tabriz has preserved the most traditional spirit of Persian carpets with a floral pattern in the centre for a graceful and mysterious style. On the other hand, Tabriz is the most modernized, weaving together a wide range of colours and novel patterns for a fresh and exciting new look.
This carpet perfectly illustrates the Tabriz style. Classic floral pattern at the centre surrounded by European-style curled leaves framing layers of different colours. This central pattern strikes a seamless balance between the old and the new in a carefully crafted aesthetic sunflower. The background patterns consist of palm flowers, lilies and Arabian curled leaves, intertwining together present a sense of sinuous elegance. Coloured with natural dyes, the harmonious contrast between the sapphire blue and bright yellow creates a luxurious profundity.
The legendary beauty of silk carpets has been polished by time and blooms extravagantly in the modern world.
