It is a warm summer afternoon and the sun is beating down on the kidderminster hills.
Carpet museum uk.
We took our eight year old granddaughter and were worried that it might not be interesting enough for her.
The museum of carpet has lots for you to enjoy as you discover over 300 years of kidderminster s integral history.
We keep safe a stunning collection of carpet designs and working machinery.
Museum collections archive and library.
A history lesson the birthplace of carpet in the united kingdom at the carpet museum kidderminster.
Through a series of displays interactives and working demonstrations the museum keeps alive the heritage of carpet making.
Our team of hand loom weavers demonstrate 10am 1pm while power loom demonstrations run at 12pm tuesdays wednesdays thursdays and saturdays and are subject to volunteer availability.
The museum was designed by architect abdol aziz mirza farmanfarmaian.
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Anthea who explained the looms to us was superb.
We needn t have worried as she loved it.
We had a real surprise visiting the museum of the carpet.
It was made in the town of ardabil in north west iran the burial place of shaykh safi al din ardabili who died in 1334.
A caring museum.
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The museum of carpet is the only museum in the uk dedicated to carpets and carpet manufacture and the only museum and gallery space in kidderminster.
Located in tehran beside laleh park and founded in 1976 the carpet museum of iran exhibits a variety of persian carpets from all over iran dating from the 16th century to the present.
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The ardabil carpet is the world s oldest dated carpet and one of the largest most beautiful and historically important.
The museum s exhibition hall occupies 3 400 square meters 36 597 ft citation needed and its library contains approximately 7 000 books.
It is this lovely wool we use to make our multipurpose coarse thick cloth from.