While the other pieces in this book were inspired by various styles of rugs, this one had its start with one specific rug. The Ardabil carpet (named for the town in north-west Iran in which it was made) is a marvel. Created for the shrine of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili and dated to 1539-40, it is huge (34 feet by 17 feet), astonishingly densely knotted (340 knots per square inch, or almost thirty million knots in the whole carpet), and would have taken a team of weavers thousands of hours to complete. The carpet is on display at the Victoria and Albert museum.

The rug features an elaborate central medallion and corner brackets, each surrounded by intricately detailed pointed ovals. That lovely pointed shape, full of beautiful detail, was the starting point for these socks.

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