The Weaver / INVESTIGATION
Seven Metres. No Signature.
The extraordinary lives of an Iranian carpet—and the names missing from its history.
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Read beyond
the familiar.
Eighteen original pieces. Different lengths, disciplines and ways of getting to the point.
OCTOBER 2026
The Image Maker / OBJECT DISPATCH
The Bat with a Face
Bhawani Das painted a fruit bat without shrinking its strangeness.
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The Wordsmith / ILLUMINATED STORY
Laila Crosses the Desert
Persianate poetry reappears on a manuscript page, and the encounter remains unresolved.
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18 PIECESFollow your
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The Weaver / INVESTIGATION
Seven Metres. No Signature.
The extraordinary lives of an Iranian carpet—and the names missing from its history.
1 MIN READTHE 1001 EDITORIAL DESK
The Weaver / SLOW LOOK
A Garden Without a Gate
An eighteenth-century Iranian carpet that invites you to wander without moving.
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The Image Maker / OBJECT DISPATCH
The Bat with a Face
Bhawani Das painted a fruit bat without shrinking its strangeness.
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The Wordsmith / ILLUMINATED STORY
Laila Crosses the Desert
Persianate poetry reappears on a manuscript page, and the encounter remains unresolved.
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The Object Maker / DESIGN HISTORY
The Microscope Wore Gold
An eighteenth-century scientific instrument that refuses the separation of beauty and usefulness.
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The Performer / QUICK TAKE
The Lion Dance Is Silent
A performance held in colour, gesture and the silence of paper.
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The Sound Maker / SOUND / OBJECT
The Stone That Made Sound
A Mexican musical instrument, centuries old, whose sound is absent from the archive.
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The Object Maker / ONE MINUTE
The Donkey Inside the Star
Thirteenth-century Kashan pottery makes an argument for looking twice.
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The Weaver / MATERIAL INTELLIGENCE
Poppies Have No Borders
An exquisite textile whose origin is registered as India or Iran.
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The World Builder / WORKPLACE REPORT
The Workshop Has No Hero
A Persian manuscript painting shifts attention from a finished object to the people making it.
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The Object Maker / OBJECT PORTRAIT
A Body That Can Hold Water
An Ecuadorian ceramic vessel shaped like a seated man.
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The Performer / PERFORMANCE NOTE
A Beach Is a Stage
Torii Kiyonaga shows how a performance can reorganise a landscape.
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The World Builder / SKY ATLAS
A World Built Around the Sky
Dürer mapped the southern heavens on paper in 1515.
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The Object Maker / DESIGN OBJECT
The Box Remembers the Dance
A Japanese lacquer object that turns performance into portable decoration.
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The World Builder / DESIGN FRAGMENT
Architecture Before Walls
A fifteenth-century French drawing insists that buildings begin as thought.
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The Object Maker / TIMEPIECE
How to Slow Time
A brass sundial asks whether measurement has to feel mechanical.
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The Weaver / VISUAL BESTIARY
The Silk Bestiary
An Iranian carpet holds a crowd of animals that could never share one habitat.
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The Performer / CROWD STUDY
The Wedding Eats the Room
An engraving of a peasant dance crowds its picture with movement.
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