Friday, March 30, 2007

Braided Rugs


Braided rugs are highly appreciated and admired by the real connoisseurs of carpet weaving art.
Generally, the most of braided rugs represent nothing else than just scores and hundred thousands of yarn packs knotted together by a weaving master on the basic threads.
I’d like to share some words about the methods of braded rugs weaving. Generally, there are several methods of tying up knots in such rugs. Most of these methods are widely spread and used in Persian and Turkish braided rugs. However, that would be a mistake to think, however, that the most wide spread knots in braided rugs and methods of their binding together belong to Persia and Turkey. Many other countries use Persian technology of knitting braided rugs, and just the same and on the contrary – many masters of weaving braided rugs do their job with the help of Turkish knots, though it is a less spread.
Among the less known and not so widely spread types of braided rugs you can find an economic knot rug juftie and the so called Tibetan method of weaving braided rugs.
Typically, the Persian knot that is used in braided rugs (except Iran) is widely spread in India, Turkey, China, and Egypt. According to the principle rule, yarn is twined round one of the basic threads, and then the fiber comes under the nearby thread, and goes on the surface.
The Turkish knot looks really symmetrical in braided rugs. In the process of tying this knot the yarn fiber twines round different sides of the nearby basic threads, and both ends come to the surface of braided rugs very close to each other. These methods of weaving braided rugs are used in Turkey, the Caucasus, and some parts of Iran.

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