The Flat-Woven Rug

A simple but durable rug, flat-woven rugs and tapestries are among the most basic and beautiful of all hand-loomed floor coverings. A product of rustic settings with basic lines and colors, flat woven rugs have made their way from rural areas around the world into areas of high concentration and trade. The underlying art of flat-woven rugs is their ability to be reversed, and their suitability in nearly any setting, from the rustic to the cosmopolitan. Flat-woven rugs are built for the speed of life.

The Hand-Tufted Rug

Tufting a rug is a manner of rug construction whereby tufts of thread are shot through an extremely fine and tight canvas. The resulting tuft is in every regard the same as a traditional hand-knotted tuft in both composition and function, but involves a fraction of the time and expense. The lack of knots, though, requires that an additional backing be applied to the canvas, often with a high-strength adhesive. Characteristic, too, of tufted rugs, is that they lack fringes as there are no warp threads. Due to their affordability, Rugs of this craft are the emerging trend in home furnishing design.

The Hand-Knotted Rug

Hand-knotting rugs is an intense labor of love whereby each tuft in a rug is created by literally tying a knot around a warp thread. This ancient and time-honored technique of weaving is extremely intricate, time-consuming, and demands ability that most weavers can only achieve after years of training. Larger rugs often employ as many as a dozen skilled artisans working on a single rug at the same time. This same process may take as long as six months to yield a single rug. Knots in our collections begin at 64 knots per square inch, but may rise as high as 200 knots per square inch. Jaipur Rugs’ hand-knotted collections are precision artwork and created to last a lifetime.