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Miri Iranian Knots

Throughout its long history, Persian carpets have been nurtured by the nature of the Iranian plateau and have enriched and colored the lives of people around the world. In the modern era, however, carpets lost their original brilliance in the wave of mass production.

Razi Mehri, the fifth generation of Mehri’s workshop, wondered where the true Persian carpets had gone, and through repeated trials and research, he was able to revive carpets that were once thought to be impossible to restore, by hand-spinning and dyeing them with plants and trees.

The workshop where the entire process from wool collection to hand-spinning, herb-dyeing, designing, and weaving is conducted is unique in the world.

The carpets made from all natural materials and knotted by excellent craftsmen are imbued with the joy of craftsmanship as well as traditions cultivated in the local climate. Mealy Workshop values the tenderness that comes from the coexistence of nature and human beings.

Mealy Workshop’s carpets will make you feel comfortable in your daily life as if you are surrounded by nature.

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History of Miri

For five generations, the Mealy family has been involved in the hand-knotted carpet business from 1820 until today. The third generation, Mostafa Mealy, a connoisseur and seller of fine antique carpets, initially exported only to Arab countries, but with the help of his son, Javad Mealy, began exporting to Switzerland and other European countries from around 1950. After Mostafa’s death in 1956, he was succeeded by his second son, Javad, and third son, Turgi, and in 1965, Turgi Mealy founded SHERKAT SADERAT GHALI. In 1988, the fifth generation, Razi Mehri, began his own research into the production of fine carpets. In 1997, he completed an extensive herb-dyeing facility in Shiraz, the first of its kind anywhere in the world.

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The Mealy family’s passion for carpets, led by Mr. Razi, led to the successful restoration of antique carpets and the production of higher quality carpets. In 1994, he was awarded the Besim Oscar for the world’s finest hand-woven carpets. In 2004, the Shoto Museum of Art in Tokyo, and in 2005, the Orient Museum in Okayama and the Ichinomiya City Museum held “The Splendid World of Persian Carpets: Restorations and Classical Works from the Mehri Studio in Iran,” which drew a strong response not only in Japan but also around the world. Mealy carpets are now said to be a phenomenon similar to the Safavid Persian Art Renaissance, as they breathed life back into Persian carpets just when they were beginning to decline due to the spread of chemical dyes and machine-woven carpets in the wave of mass production. Javad Mealy passed away in Hamburg in 2001, and Turgi Mealy passed away in 2004. However, the tradition is carried on by his three sons, Razi, Sadegh, and Habib, whose sincerity and pursuit of beauty in art are woven into the history of Persian art in its most magnificent form, the “knot.