BIOGRAPHY OF THE SHENASI CARPET'S FOUNDER
MR.HOSSEIN SHENASI
When Hossein Shenasi was 12 in his hometown of Tabriz, Iran, he began weaving carpets for his uncle and then went on to learn family business. In Tehran bazaar he worked in the famous Momtaz carpet store which mainly dealt in the sale, cleaning, and repair of hand-knotted carpets for more than twenty years he learned all aspects of carpet restoration whether weaving damaged areas, color run removal, stretching out of shaped carpets, binding, or fringing. He then immigrated to Canada in the late 1970s to pursue what he had learned.
1959
The employees are cleaning carpets with special brooms and shampoo as Mr. Shenasi and two carpet dealers are overlooking.
1959
The worker is cleaning carpets at Mr. Shenasi’s plant in Tehran.
1959
Mr. Shenasi with two dealers and employees overseeing the shearing process in the cleaning and repair plant in Tehran.
1958
Mr. Shenasi in the early days of plant opening carpets being dried over stones under the sun.
1959
Mr. Shenasi is inspecting carpets with two carpet dealers in Tehran.
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