Carpet from Mulshi for Delhi airport’s T3

When Delhi airport’s terminal 3 is inaugurated by the Prime Minister on Saturday,a carpet manufactured in Mulshi here is likely to be the cynosure of all eyes. A large workforce in Mulshi had spent the better part of the year working on what is arguably the largest ever commercial order in the world for a carpet for a single customer. The carpet is spread over an area of 1,70,000 sq m or 24 football fields.

The order was bagged by UK’s Brintons Carpets. The work was done at Brintons Carpets Asia,its Asia manufacturing unit. As many as 320 labourers and 20 weaving machines worked for four months to put together the piece that was transported to Delhi by 85 containers each 30 feet long. “The basic design depicts Delhi’s Connaught Place as seen by Google Earth,” said MM Kamath,director,Brintons Asia.