Hand Knotted Carpets

Hand knotted rugs are products which has gained its importance world wide and has established its fame all around the world.

They are also known by another name, it is Oriental carpets. These carpets are crowned the name ‘aristocrats of carpets.

These hand knotted rugs look similar to the magic carpet which are shown in the Arabic tales.

They really show magic by transforming your house into something new and amazing. These rugs provide a special look to the house.

Making of these hand knotted rugs is really a time consuming job. First the warp threads are stretched and it is fixed to a loom and then the work starts by knotting the pile to these threads.

Then a weft thread is inserted when a row of knots is completed. Finally after the completion of the entire rugs after knotting, the pile is then shorn.

The quality of the rugs depends on the work done by craftsmen which differs which the craftsman.

The quality of the hand knotted rugs also depends on the number of knots.It can be checked that the best quality carpets will have about 500 to 1,000 knots per square inch.

Many of the countries in the Far East are known to produce excellent hand knotted rugs. They are Persia, Turkey, Afghanistan, India, China, Nepal, Turkistan, Caucasus and many more.

Apart from these another producer is Spain which are famous in this field. Even though a lot of information is collected on hand knotted rugs, the date or the year when the first of this kind was made is not known.

There are many theories associated with the invention of the technique used for making these hand knotted rugs.