Carpets (in Turkish – kilim) may be woven, knitted, tied, needled or stitched and pasted. In Persija shop we sell only hand-made carpets which are manufactured upholding the centuries-old tradition. These carpets as artwork are manufactured in stockbreeding countryside sodalities ( where traditions in nomad families are transmited from generation to generation) and in supervised carpet weaving factories in big towns. Classical oriental carpets are flat ones. They are woven manually from wool, cotton or silk with vertical or horizontal loom. Their weft are from wool. Kilim and gobelin type carpets‘ tracery‘s weft are poked with huckback weaving, whereas sumach type – swirled around two-warp threads. Thread after thread is inwoven into the carpet, according to the cardboard model of the tracery, which is prepared by the main person of manufacturing – artistic designer and drawer. The oldest type of shaggy carpets is tied ones. These carpets are tied in vertical or horizolntal frame.
Tied carpets are comprised of:
a) Cotton or woolen warp,
b) Woolen, silk or cotton weft and
c) Fluff knots from woolen or silken threads.
Suitable color fluff yarns are tied on the warp – knots are Persian or smira’s. After each row of knots two wefts of huckaback weaving are being laid. Per one square meter there are from 15 000 till 1mln. knots. That’s why production of tied carpets is very slow – in one year tier can tie about 8-12 square meters.
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