The Carpet Makers
Edition: First trade paperback edition
Series: Carpet Makers Universe Series
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: February 21, 2006
Place of publication: New York City, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Die Haarteppichknüpfer
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780765314901
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Science Fiction; Science Fiction - General; Fiction; Fiction - Science Fiction; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Carpets
Other titles: Hair Carpet Weavers
First sentence: KNOT AFTER KNOT, DAY IN, day out, for an entire lifetime, always the same hand movements, always looping the same knots in the fine hair, so fine and so tiny that with time, the fingers trembled and the eyes became weak from strain-and still the progress was hardly noticeable.
Description: The carpet maker, following the traditions of his fathers, will spend his entire life making one carpet from the hair of his wife and daughters, so fine and fragile that only the God Emperor may purchase it, until the Empire disappears and strangers arrive, finding something unbelievable in the patterns of the carpets.