Hunarmand

Hunarmand · Living craft

Hand-knotted Carpet

قالین

A single 6×4 carpet is the work of eighteen months. The talim — the colour-coded weaving instruction — is read aloud across the loom from a sheet that has never been written down twice the same way.

3 verified masters · workshops year-round

Three living masters

Meet the Masters

Each profile opens the master's Vault — what only they know, captured for the people who come next.

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Habibullah Najar

4th Generation · Hand-knotted Carpet

Khanyar, Srinagar

Persian-Kashmiri fusion carpet. 400 knots per square inch. One carpet takes 18 months.

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Mohammad Ramzan Bhat

3rd Generation · Hand-knotted Carpet

Bhaderwah, Doda

Uses a colour-coding system (talim) invented by his grandfather — never written down until now.

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Showkat Ahmad Dar

2nd Generation · Hand-knotted Carpet

Anantnag, Anantnag

Youngest carpet master. Reviving the Shah Abbas pattern last woven in Kashmir in the 1960s.