How a Tabriz rug is knotted
Between four hundred thousand and a million knots, tied one at a time. What that actually means for the piece you buy.
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Journal
Workshop visits, notes on the crafts we carry, and announcements from Miras.
A morning in a Lalejin pottery
The town has made pots for four hundred years. We spent a morning watching one family do it.
How to read our income disclosure
What the numbers in the disclosure mean, and what they deliberately do not say.
What khatam actually is
Not inlay, not marquetry in the European sense. Bundles of wood, brass and bone, drawn out like a stick of rock.