Threads of Tabriz

A one-screen weaving game about careful swipes and a carpet that grows, set in a workshop in Safavid Tabriz.

Threads of Tabriz begins with a bare, cream-coloured warp stretched on a big wooden loom. Touch an unfinished spot and swipe across or down, and a glowing thread grows both ways from your fingertip. Reach the edges safely and that stretch of the carpet blooms into woven pattern; if a drifting bundle of loose yarn bumps the thread first, it simply frays and fades, and you try again.

The whole game is one judgment, made over and over. A small cut is safe but claims little cloth; a big cut can transform the screen, but the thread stays exposed for longer. Finish a carpet completely and the next one is waiting, a little quicker than the last. Runs are short, and what a child chases is their own fastest climb through the carpets.

Threads of Tabriz is a game about patience and foresight, visually rooted in the traditions of Persian carpet weaving. A struck thread frays gently and nothing is lost: no lives, nothing to buy, no leaderboard, and by the end of a good run the child can see a Persian carpet that exists because of their choices. The setting is a fictionalised workshop in Safavid Tabriz, around 1510 to 1540, when the city was the first Safavid capital and Persian carpet design was reaching its height. The carpets a child weaves are the game's own, not copies of historic pieces.

How to play

Fill the loom with carpet patterns by separating off clear sections of unfinished cloth.

Look for a bare, cream-coloured part of the cloth where a line could separate off a section with no moving yarn inside it.
Touch that spot, swipe across or down, then lift your finger.
The thread grows both ways. If it reaches the edges without being hit by yarn, the clear section fills with pattern.
If the thread frays or fades, wait for a clearer moment and try another spot.
Tip: Start your swipe halfway along the line you want to make. The thread grows both ways, so this helps it reach both edges sooner.

Try this together: Look for a clear strip near an edge before trying to fill a bigger section.

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