Intrepid Group.
“You see this one?” Mr Solomon asked us, gesturing at a red carpet to his left, “it has around 600,000 knots.”
He strolled across the room and picked up a vibrant silk carpet, as gently as he would a baby. “Something like this, maybe one million or two million knots.”
Our jaws collectively dropped to the floor in disbelief. In a world of fast-fashion and mass production, the sheer amount of effort involved in the creation of one rug was astounding. Yet at the Desen Hali Co-operative in Bergama in Turkey, this is the way they had always operated.
