The carpet made up of warp and weft and knots.  Made up of hours of patient skill, skill of weavers and dyers,

carders of wool and shearers of fleece, shepherds -

They all made the Persian carpet.

This is the sheep that grows the fleece for a Persian carpet.

This is the shepherd who shears the sheep, cutting his fleece

so soft and deep, fleece for a Persian carpet.

This is the girl  who spins the wool.  Round and round 

goes her spindle, till the wool is twisted into yarn,

These are the women who pick the herbs

herbs from the forests herbs from the hills,

to color the Persian carpet.

These are the pots so round and black in which they boil

and mix and stir dyes for the Persian carpet.

Into the pots they dip the yarn, then hang out the skeins

of yarn to dry, yarn for a Persian carpet.

These are the warp threads, sooth and straight, strung on the

loom that stands in the house strung for a Persian carpet.

This is the way the yarn is wound into flat balls

around and around wound for the Persian carpet.

These are the weavers, small and swift.  And this is the bench

on which they sit for knotting the Persian carpet.

This is the pattern, marked in squares to show what

color goes here and there in the beautiful Persian carpet.

This is the way the weavers work:  Reach for a ball

and cuff off a bit. Tie a knot with a finger flip

around one thread of the empty warp,

When knots are tied across a row, a thread is pulled

through to hold them so - weft for the Persian carpet.

This is the comb to press down the weft

and tighten the knots of the colored threads

Then comes the shears that cuts off the ends

It evens the pile so soft and smooth