World's Largest Kilim Rug Made in Iran

Iran has announced that weavers in the southern province of Fars have produced the world's largest kilim rug, measuring an enormous 105 square meters (more than 1,100 square feet).
The 7x15-meter kilim was the handiwork of seven expert weavers and three assistants in the town of Qirokarzin,” said Mohammad Jafar Ebrahimi, the local cultural heritage chief, on state television.
Ebrahimi said it was commissioned by the energy-rich Persian Gulf state of Qatar), AFP reported.
Kilims, which are flat and not knotted, are traditionally woven by hand by nomads in Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan for use in tents.
According to statistics provided by IRNA, the export of Iran's world-renowned carpets raise between $400 million and $500 million a year.
Recently, four hand-woven Persian carpets with a total area of 2,000 square meters were exported to the UAE.
“These carpets were woven in Tabriz, the provincial capital of East Azarbaijan, over seven years,” spokesperson of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, Rouhollah Latifi, was quoted as saying by IRNA.
Two of these carpets measured 600 square meters each (30 meters in length and 20 meters in width) and the other two were 400 square meters each (20 meters in length and 20 meters in width).
The last time carpets of such sizes were exported from the country was 15 years ago.