3 Things must know about "Carpet"
- Cashmere Artisan
- Apr 9, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 11, 2022
1.Carpet production process
2. What is handmade carpet?
3. How we design carpet
1. Carpet production process
Eventually, the hand-knotted carpets and rugs are seen to be made all over the world. The quintessential style of carpets, hand knotted was originally seen in Asiatic locations. These highly prized specimens of floor coverings were later imitated by the European nations later (if you already read an article "Story of Persian Carpet, you might already known). Carpets are constructed by clipping the lengths of yarn. The clipped ends of the yarn form the pile of the carpet that are tied in rows crossways to warps. Each row of knots is separated by multiple picks of wefts, fixed in as interchanging series of plain weave.
There are several styles of knotting, however have only 2 main types of knot.
1. "Symmetrical" (also called Turkish or Ghiordes) and
2. "Asymmetrical" (also called Persian or Senna).
Contemporary centres of knotted carpet production are: Lahore and Peshawar, Kashmir, Tabriz (Iran), Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Tibet. Kashmir carpet is known for hand knotted carpets of silk or wool.
Famous hand knotted carpets and rugs have been fascinating the world since centuries. Till today, there is a huge demand of such beauties in the Western markets. Materials such as silk, wool, and jute have also been used to knot such handmade marvels.
2. What is handmade carpet ?
"A floor covering which is made completely by human hand by hand-knotting , hand-tuffing or ,hand-weaving in which hand-spun yarn of natural fibers (most commonly), wool or, silk are used with individual character and design"
Handmade carpets are traditionally higher-price and more valuable (with worthy) than those made by machine. Though there are serval carpet making method, including braiding, tying (or hand knotting ), hooking, shearing, and tufting the most common of these are 'braiding and hand knotting'
3. How we design carpet ?
When speaking about patterns and carpets manufacturing these are often divided into three categories; curvilinear, geometric and figural patterns. There are many frequent named patterns, we will mention a few of the most common ones.
These patterns can decorate a small part of a carpet or be used in an overall motif.
From the pattern on a carpet it is possible to see what style and also which origin the carpet has. The size and colours that are used also contributes to the answer of the carpets origin.
The pattern is the most obvious and perhaps the most important characteristic in a carpet. Around the cities and in the workshops, much time is emphasized on developing and refining the old traditional patterns which are all first drawn by hand on paper then will sent to knot.
Design carpet process currently have not much people can design or make new pattern because consume a lot of time and have to be only an artisan. After design processed we sent to family household which they can make carpet until last.
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