Iran to reweave Milan museum’s Safavid carpet

“Reweaving of the carpet will begin this year after the necessary research and designing processes have been carried out,” TARC director Abdolmajid Sharifzadeh told the Persian service of CHN on Friday.

“The carpet will be analyzed in terms of design and color. The artwork of the warping will be studied before commencing on the design,” he added.

The “Hunting Carpet” was created in 1542-1543 by Ghyas ad-Din Jami, a carpet designer and weaver of that time.

The carpet, which measures 5.7x3.6 meters, was cut in order to be transferred from Iran.

It is evident that the Queen of Italy, Margherita of Savoy (1851-1926), ordered restoration of the carpet.

The carpet has been on display at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum since 1923.

The “Hunting Carpet” and the “Tigers Carpet”, the other fifteenth-century carpet in the museum, both bought by Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli in 1855, are Italy’s most important specimens of ancient carpets.

The images on the carpet represent the aesthetical, literary, philosophical, and mystical aspects of Iran’s Islamic traditional art, as explained on the Poldi Pezzoli Museum’s website.

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