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• First ever Geographical Indication (GI) tagged Kashmir carpets flagged off to Germany.
• Department of Industry Promotion and Internal Trade granted GI tag to Kashmiri hand knotted carpets in 2016 but the registered carpets were certified from this year.
• History of Kashmiri carpet dates back to the period of the famous Sufi Saint and scholar, Hazrat Mir Syed All Hamdani (1341-1385 AD) of Persia.
• Kashmiri carpets are very similar to Iranian carpets, but in Kashmiri carpets weavers use a written set of codes and symbols for design patterns and colors, called Taleem.
• Taleem, a coded color chart indicates the number of knots to be woven in their respective colors.