The Carpet Makers (German original title: Die Haarteppichknüpfer), also published under the title The Hair Carpet Weavers, is a science fiction novel by German writer Andreas Eschbach, originally published in 1995.
The first English language edition, released in 2005 by Tor Books, features a foreword by Orson Scott Card.
The book is set on a planet whose sole industry is weaving elaborate rugs. The carpets are made of human hair and require a lifetime of work to complete. The book is a series of inter-related stories that give increasingly more detail on the nature and purpose of the rugs and why the universe has tens of thousands of planets solely devoted to making such a thing, each thinking they are the only one.
There is a prequel to The Carpet Makers titled Quest (2001), which has not been translated into English so far.
translated into English were Die Haarteppichknüpfer, published in 2005 as TheCarpetMakers, Herr aller Dinge, published in 2014 as Lord of All Things, and Perry...
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A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but...
is an Indian hand-knotted carpet and hand tufted carpet manufacturer founded in 1920, and now India's largest carpet-maker. It is based primarily in Uttar...
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although the latter is more eclectic. Andreas Eschbach's first novel, TheCarpetMakers, published in Germany in 1996 (1999 in France), paved the way for...
though the most common use is as a seating carpet. A typical sleeping carpet measuring around 3 ft × 5 ft (0.91 m × 1.52 m) is called a khaden. The knotting...
for carpet weaving as it is one of largest centres of Carpet Industries in India and therefore it also known as the 'Carpet City of India'. Carpets of...
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) intangible cultural heritage elements are the non-physical traditions and...
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a day. Due to the high interest rate at which the loan was taken, it stood at 13,000 rupees prior to his escape. At thecarpetmaker's, Iqbal was chained...
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repairs worn out shoes, tandoori bread is baked, a carpet-maker ties knots for a large Afghan carpet with the famous Elephantfoot pattern. Exhibitions displayed...
for quality carpet making, following Charlotte Maria Gardiner, half auntie of the 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, bringing a number of carpetmakers from Dalkeith...
Turkmen tribes, the Saryk are known as carpet-makers and have their own distinctive style: dark red-brown carpets with the pattern picked out in fine, thin...
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