Habibullah Najar
4th Generation · Hand-knotted Carpet
Khanyar, Srinagar
Persian-Kashmiri fusion carpet. 400 knots per square inch. One carpet takes 18 months.
Hunarmand · Living craft
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
Each profile opens the master's Vault — what only they know, captured for the people who come next.
4th Generation · Hand-knotted Carpet
Khanyar, Srinagar
Persian-Kashmiri fusion carpet. 400 knots per square inch. One carpet takes 18 months.
3rd Generation · Hand-knotted Carpet
Bhaderwah, Doda
Uses a colour-coding system (talim) invented by his grandfather — never written down until now.
2nd Generation · Hand-knotted Carpet
Anantnag, Anantnag
Youngest carpet master. Reviving the Shah Abbas pattern last woven in Kashmir in the 1960s.