Molavi Carpet | Zhikan Pattern – Sadafi (Pearl) Color | Afshan Design Persian Machine-Made Carpet

The Zhikan Sadafi Afshan by Molavi Carpet is a brilliantly detailed Persian machine-made carpet that pairs the Zhikan’s legendary floral complexity with a luminous pearl-cream background. This 700-reed carpet is alive with color — delicate multicolored blossoms dance across a bright field, framed by ornate paisley-accented borders, creating a piece that is simultaneously traditional in spirit and radiant in presentation.

Pattern Description: Zhikan Afshan Design

The Zhikan Afshan pattern is one of the most botanically rich designs in Persian carpet tradition. The all-over Afshan layout fills every portion of the field with flowering plants in various stages of bloom — from tight buds to fully opened blossoms — connected by a continuous network of stems, leaves, and vine tendrils. The effect is that of a sunlit garden captured in woven form.

The border is a showcase of traditional Persian artistry, featuring prominent paisley (boteh) elements at each corner and continuous floral guard bands that run the full perimeter. These paisley motifs are among the oldest and most culturally significant forms in Persian decorative arts, lending the Zhikan design a sense of deep historical authenticity and formal grandeur.

Color Palette: Sadafi (Pearl)

In the Sadafi colorway, the Zhikan’s dense floral composition is presented on a glowing pearl-white and cream background that maximizes the visibility and impact of every individual flower. Where the Doodi version uses darkness to create drama, the Sadafi version uses brightness to create joy. Every petal in pink, red, soft yellow, green, and light blue stands out with crystal clarity against the luminous ground.

The ornate border maintains a harmonious relationship with the bright field, using warm cream and gold tones as its foundation while the paisley corner pieces add touches of deeper color for definition. The overall impression is one of abundance, celebration, and light — a carpet that genuinely brightens the room it occupies.

Technical Specifications

Material and Quality

Color Brilliance in Acrylic Heat-Set

The Zhikan Sadafi Afshan’s vibrant multicolored florals demand a fiber that holds dye with exceptional fidelity. 100% acrylic heat-set yarn excels at this, maintaining the distinction between closely related hues — soft pink versus deep rose, lemon yellow versus warm gold — that gives the design its botanical realism. The heat-set treatment also ensures the bright pearl background remains clean and luminous, resisting the yellowing that can affect lesser materials over time.

Precision at 700 Reeds and 2550 Density

The sheer number of individual floral elements in the Zhikan design pushes weaving technology to its limits. At 700 reeds and 2550 density, the Vandewiele HCP loom renders each small blossom, each leaf, and each vine segment as a distinct, legible form. On the bright Sadafi background, even the smallest imperfection would be visible — the Vandewiele’s precision ensures none exist.

Interior Decoration Suggestions

The Zhikan Sadafi Afshan brings color and tradition to bright, welcoming interiors:

• Bright Traditional Living Rooms: This carpet is the natural centerpiece for a light-filled room furnished in traditional style. Pair with carved wooden furniture, silk cushions, and crystal chandeliers for a classic Persian aesthetic at its most inviting.
• Elegant Bedrooms: The joyful, garden-like quality of the Zhikan Sadafi creates a warm, nurturing atmosphere in the bedroom. Its bright palette makes the room feel larger and more open.
• Family Rooms: The colorful, lively pattern appeals to all ages, making this an excellent choice for shared family spaces where beauty and durability must coexist.
• Light-Themed Formal Spaces: In reception rooms, sitting rooms, or formal parlors with light wall treatments, this carpet provides the ornamental richness that completes the design scheme without darkening the atmosphere.

Why Choose the Zhikan Sadafi Afshan?

• Extraordinarily detailed multicolored Afshan design on a luminous pearl ground
• Ornate paisley corner borders honor centuries of Persian decorative tradition
• Bright palette visually expands and energizes any room
• 700-reed, 2550-density resolution ensures every small flower reads clearly
• Heat-set acrylic maintains color brilliance and resists staining on the light background
• Vandewiele HCP weaving delivers flawless quality across the entire surface
• Proudly produced by Molavi Carpet with uncompromising quality standards

Care and Maintenance Instructions

• Vacuum two to three times per week to keep the bright pearl surface free of dust and debris.
• Address spills without delay — blot gently with a white, absorbent cloth to avoid color transfer.
• Rotate the carpet every three to four months for balanced exposure to light and foot traffic.
• Engage professional carpet cleaning services every 12 months, or more frequently in high-traffic areas.
• Position away from entryways unless protective mats are used to prevent tracked-in soil.
• Always use a non-slip underpad to protect the carpet backing and keep the carpet securely in place.

Wholesale and Distribution

Molavi Carpet supplies the Zhikan Sadafi Afshan to carpet retailers, interior designers, and wholesale distributors. Light-colored, richly patterned Persian carpets are in strong demand across residential and hospitality markets. Contact our commercial division for wholesale pricing, size availability, and shipping arrangements.

Bring a Persian Garden Into Your Home

The Zhikan Sadafi Afshan Persian machine-made carpet by Molavi Carpet is a celebration of color, light, and Persian botanical artistry. This 700-reed carpet transforms floors into flowering gardens, filling rooms with warmth, beauty, and cultural depth. Contact Molavi Carpet today to make this extraordinary piece part of your interior.

About Molavi Carpet — A Sunlit Garden, Woven in Kashan

The Zhikan Sadafi Afshan is a celebration of color and light born in the workshops of Molavi Carpet in Kashan, Isfahan Province, Iran. If the Zhikan Doodi captures the garden at twilight, the Sadafi version captures it at noon — when sunlight floods every petal and leaf with brilliance. This is fitting, because Kashan itself is a city of gardens that defy the surrounding desert, places where pink roses, yellow marigolds, and green cypresses have bloomed for centuries against walls of sun-warmed cream stone. The Zhikan Sadafi’s pearl-white field scattered with multicolored blossoms is the woven embodiment of that joyful abundance.

Rendering this many distinct colors — pinks, reds, soft yellows, greens, light blues — against a bright pearl background with full clarity and zero muddiness is one of the most demanding tasks in carpet weaving. Our Vandewiele HCP looms at 700 reeds and 2550 density achieve it flawlessly, placing each tiny petal and each ornate paisley curl with the precision that the Zhikan’s extraordinary complexity demands. The result is a carpet where every flower reads with crystal clarity, as vivid and joyful as the gardens of Kashan in full spring bloom.

Our Promise to Every Zhikan Sadafi Owner

The Zhikan Sadafi Afshan is a carpet of radiant beauty, and Molavi Carpet ensures that radiance is built to last:

• Lasting Brightness: The luminous pearl background is woven from 100% acrylic heat-set yarn specifically chosen for its resistance to yellowing and soiling. Your Zhikan Sadafi will stay as bright and fresh as the day it was woven.
• Multicolor Mastery: Maintaining the vivid distinction between dozens of different floral hues on a bright ground requires extraordinary dye fidelity. Our heat-set acrylic holds each color at its truest intensity, season after season.
• Paisley Heritage: The ornate boteh corner motifs in the Zhikan’s borders are among the most culturally significant forms in Persian decorative art, carrying symbolism stretching back thousands of years. Our design studio renders them with the respect and precision they deserve.
• Joyful Partnership: The Zhikan Sadafi brings happiness to every space it enters, and Molavi Carpet brings that same positive spirit to every customer relationship — with responsive service, flexible terms, and genuine care for your satisfaction.
• Sustainable Beauty: The natural world that inspires the Zhikan’s garden-like abundance deserves our protection. We manufacture responsibly, ensuring that the beauty we weave does not come at the environment’s expense.

From Kashan’s Gardens to Your Brightest Room

For over a thousand years, the people of Kashan have created gardens in the desert and carpets that bring those gardens indoors. The Zhikan Sadafi Afshan is the most luminous expression of this tradition — a carpet that fills rooms with the warmth of a Persian spring morning, the color of a hundred varieties in bloom, and the joy that comes from surrounding yourself with genuine beauty. When you unroll a Zhikan Sadafi, you are not just decorating a floor — you are planting a garden that will bloom for years to come.

“A Garden in Full Bloom — The Joy of Kashan, Woven by Molavi.”

Molavi Carpet  |  Kashan, Isfahan Province, Iran

Color. Light. Life. The Spirit of Persian Gardens, Woven for You.