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* Silk
Rugs :
The silk rugs are purely
made of pure silk fiber,while artificial silk is rayon blended with
wool or cotton. Silk rugs have been around the scene for centuries.
There is silk rug namely -- The Vienna Hunting Carpet--from the
16th century. It is available for inspection at the Kunst museum,
Vienna.
Today silk rugs tradition has been attributed to the main carpet
centres in the Persia and Central Asia, many of them have been producing
rugs for centuries. The Principal areas in Persia were Tabriz, Kashan
Isfahan, Joshagan, Kerman and in today’s Afghanistan Herat.
One thing that is of utmost importance is that all rugs were produced
under the direction of Court.
It is known from the reports of early travelers that Isfahan had
royal rug workshops in the vicinity of the palace. The Shah had
great influential on the designers and carpet-masters thus impacting
the production of great rugs. The court commissioned the finest
rugs. This is the reason great rugs in museum are attributed to
“Court production.” The main contract of court manufacturing
practice was: “The hands that start the rug must finish the
rug.” The Court made it sure that no two person work on the
same rug.
Oriental Rugs are based on two types of knots namely Persian knot
and Turkish knot. These share large market of silk rugs. Other knots
available are Tibetan knot, Berberian and Spanish knot. Finely knotted
carpets command a higher price than coarsely knotted ones, because
the material cost is higher and they take longer to produce. In
general up to 500 knots per sq. dm is very coarse and range of 1000
to 2000 knots per sq. dm is considered very medium fine made. While
the extremely fine made rug has knots of 4,500persq.dm.
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