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THE BIGGEST SILK CARPET OF TURKEY

Çepken Carpets has produced the biggest handwoven silk carpet ever made in Turkey. The carpet has an area of 85 sqm and was completed in four years by 14 weavers. The company applied to Guinness World Records for the title of biggest silk carpet.

Çepken Carpets that stepped into carpet business in mid 1950s accelerated its production at the end of 1980s produces mainly silk carpets in Kayseri to be marketed in the domestic market and for touristic shops located in various provinces of Turkey. Çepken Carpets that has two shops in Kayseri and Istanbul, in order to make a breakthrough in the carpet sector, in 2000, hit the road with the idea of creating a carpet that will be unique in the world with its size and prepared the world's biggest hand-knotted silk carpet with a total area of 85 sqm and size of 11.20 x 7.64 m. The carpet, which has no counterpart in the world, is as long as a bus and as wide as two cars next to each other weighs around 450 kg. The silk carpet that was completed by 14 weavers in 4 years was woven on a special loom using a type of yarn brought from Brasil. The carpet that has 42 million knots in total has a knot density of 49 knots per square centimeter.