In news sure to strike fear into local cleaners, the largest hand-woven carpet in the world has been put on display in Iran.
The carpet - called the Qasr al-Alam (The Palace of the World) - surely stands as the Mount Everest of vacuuming jobs, measuring 5,265 square metres.
Large enough to cover the football pitch at Wembley Stadium, it was woven over an eight-month period by 1,200 Iranian women, after being designed by local artist Ali Khaliqi.
Worth £2.8 million, the carpet will be taken to its new home in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by two aircraft.
Upon arrival it will sit on the floor of the prayer hall in an Abu Dhabi mosque named after the late President and founder of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan.
At the Tehran unveiling, Iran's Commerce minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi told reporters:
"This is a very big and valuable artistic masterpiece that is priceless. This magnificent carpet has been woven by men and women from the rural areas of Neyshabour city."
Some 2.2 billion knots were tied in the construction of the carpet, which used 30 tonnes of mothproof wool and 15 tonnes of cotton.
