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carpet bomber jacket

This women‘s bomber style jacket was hand-knotted in a carpet manufacture in Kathmandu, Nepal. The base layer is inspired by a traditional Iranian rug and made out of Tibetan highland wool. The upper layer is an abstract version of the US Woodland Camouflage and is knotted out of hand dyed chinese silk yarn. The weft density counts 200 knots per square inch.

Carpet weaver, trimming masters, sewing masters, dying masters, the washing and stretching masters and the balling ladies as well as the men that draw and color the graphs they are all part of making just one rug. Most of them are from Nepal but some have come even from India to work in Kathmandu in the world famous carpet business.

pattern development:

8h

digital motif design:

28h

graph drawing:

16h

dyeing:

2h

balling:

4.5h

knotting:

1536h

washing:

0.5h

stretching:

12h

trimming:

5h

edging:

6h

sewing:

3h

finishing:

1h

total:

1622h