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A Sip of Water Among the Silk Dunes: How Hadi Pourjahan Bridges Ancient Traditions and Contemporary ArtHandmade Iranian carpets have long been synonymous with frozen history. It seems there is no room for experiment in their patterns, and the craftsmen themselves merely repeat canons created hundreds of years ago. However, designer and artist Hadi Pourjahan breaks the stereotypes. His new monumental work “The Desert Carpet”, created in the Parseh Qom workshop, is not simply an interior item but a manifesto. A manifesto about the fragility of nature, the power of cultural memory and why the silk thread still speaks to us in the same language.Alfiya Kalmaganbetova#Traditions#Heritage & Identity