Once the planning was done, the real test began

20 Months. 14 Weavers. One Rug.

Once the planning was done, the real test began.

To execute a 14/14 pure silk rug of this size, we needed only the most skilled weavers in our entire network – the people who can maintain precision for months without a single lapse.

1.⁠ ⁠Selecting the Team
We asked one of our most trusted loom managers to identify the best of the best
14 master weavers out of the thousands we work with.

These are people who can weave curves, gradients, and fine detailing without distortion.
Not everyone can do that.
It takes years of discipline and practice.

2.⁠ ⁠Setting Up the Loom
The rug was 27.5 ft wide and 56 ft long.
We have wider looms, but the challenge here was the length.

Every few feet of weaving gets rolled under the loom and in this case, the roll became so large that we had to dig nearly 5 feet into the ground to make space for it.

These are the small, unseen adjustments behind every massive project.

3.⁠ ⁠20 Months of Weaving
This single rug kept 14 weavers employed for nearly 20 months.
That’s the part most people don’t realise —
a long-term project like this becomes the primary source of income and stability for the entire group of weavers and their families.

Each day, hundreds of thousands of knots were tied.
With 40 colours in the design, every knot had to follow the CAD map precisely.

4.⁠ ⁠Zero Margin for Error
With weaving this fine, even a small variation creates a ripple effect:
If one weaver weaves even slightly faster, the design can distort.

A 1-inch deviation at the loom can result up to multiple feet in size distortion.
If colours are mistakenly placed, the entire gradient shifts.

There were hundreds of points where this could have gone wrong.
It didn’t, because of the discipline and consistency of these 14 weavers.

This was the most technically challenging weaving project we’ve ever executed.

And it demanded a level of focus that very few crafts in the world still require today.

Next Post: Part 3 – The part of the process we thought would be easy… and turned out to be the hardest.
The washing and finishing challenge no one predicted.