4-Day Carpet Making Tour in Tehran and Qom with Weaver Experience

Meet your tour guide at a predecided location.

Visit Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the former royal Qajar complex in Iran's capital city. Its name means Roseland.

Walk through the bazaar to meet local people and get to know the Iranian purchasing style.

After lunch, head to the Jewelry Museum, home to the Iranian National Jewels, originally the Iranian Crown Jewels.

Stay overnight in Tehran.

Have your breakfast.

Visit the Carpet Museum of Iran. Usually, about 135 boards of Iranian carpet masterpieces are displayed in the ground-floor hall, representing important carpet-weaving centers such as Kashan, Kerman, Isfahan, Tabriz, Khorasan, Kurdistan, and others.

See the Tabriz Carpet Exhibition. In this exhibition, examples of the Shahnameh Baysonghori carpets are displayed, depicting corners of Iranian literature, myth, religion, and the country's rich arts and culture.

Have your breakfast.

Head to Qom.

Visit the old bazaar of Qom, where traditional occupations still flourish, to see the dyeing workplaces and how raw silk stains are used as a warp.

Visit a house of silk carpet weavers, where you will live as part of an Iranian family and experience their traditions and rules.

Learn weaving, knitting, and carpet making in the weaver's house.

Stay overnight at the weaver's house or go to the hotel.

Visit Timcheh, the old and traditional place specially used for carpet selling, as well as other places that sell carpet-making materials.

• If you buy a silk carpet, you will bring a visual memory with you.