Mainly political prisoners, they imbibed a superior aesthetic sensibility & meticulous attention to details in these masterpieces. Since there was no budget or time constraint the weavers took tremendous pride in their work and eventually outshone their teachers

The Jail Carpets were made of the finest wool, velvets, silks and sometimes even Pashmina wool. The dyes used were natural dyes and vegetable dyes that were extracted out of plants, rocks, minerals, insects etc. Unlike chemical colours, these dyes lasted for hundreds of years. The themes & designs were unique and distinctive, quite different from the traditional Persian, Turkish and central Asian carpets and have fetched record prices at auctions the world over.