Golestan – Persian Carpet Generator for Blender

Golestan weaves photorealistic hand-knotted Persian carpets inside Blender. Pick a weaving city or tribe, from a Tabriz or Kashan medallion carpet and a silk Qom prayer rug to a tribal Heriz, a Qashqai, a Baluch or a naive Gabbeh with its animals, and the addon draws the whole design knot by knot, then weaves it into a carpet with real pile, flat-woven kilim ends and a knotted fringe.

Every carpet is drawn by the addon, never a tiled photo. Medallions with pendants, corner spandrels, Herati, Shah Abbasi and scrolling-vine fields, main borders with guard stripes, prayer arches, vase and tree-of-life designs, garden panels and Gabbeh figures follow the real carpets of each city. Knot density sets how fine the drawing steps, abrash adds the colour bands of hand-dyed yarn lots, and a hand-drawn slider gives village rugs their charming irregularity.

The look is built for close-ups. Each knot is a tuft of wool or silk with its own normal, roughness and ambient occlusion, silk gets an anisotropic sheen, and the pile slopes down into the flat-woven ends. Age it with one click from New to Used, Antique or Worn Out: traffic lanes wear down to the bare foundation, colours fade in the sun, iron-dyed outlines corrode and grime settles in.

Features

• 22 weaving centres: Tabriz, Kashan, Isfahan, Nain, Qom, Kerman, Mashhad, Sarouk, Heriz, Bidjar, Hamadan, Senneh, Mood, Joshaghan, Bakhtiari, Qashqai, Baluch, Gabbeh, Ardabil, Kenareh runner, Modern and Shah Abbas
• 10 layouts: medallion and corners, open-field medallion, all-over, pole medallions, garden panels, prayer niche, vase, tree of life, tribal and Gabbeh
• 9 field patterns, 4 medallion shapes, 6 main borders and 6 guard stripes, all as pictures in the sidebar
• 19 natural-dye palettes matched to real carpets, or six colours of your own
• Traditional Persian sizes from pushti to palace carpets, runners and rounds, or any custom size
• Wool, wool and silk or all-silk pile on a cotton, wool or silk foundation, 16 to 900 knots per square inch
• Condition New, Used, Antique or Worn Out, plus wear, sun fade, corrosion and dirt sliders
• Kilim ends, knotted or loose fringe, floor lay, wrinkles and a folded corner showing the knotted back
• Game Ready or Hero mesh, export of base colour, normal, roughness, AO and height maps
• Picture-first sidebar with Surprise, Variation and Colours buttons, Shift+A menu and Convert to Mesh

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.