- The most labour-intensive weaving process, conducted by specially-trained artisans
- Working off a rug map, artisans tie individual knots to build up the rug’s design one row at a time
- The quality of a hand-knotted rug is determined by the number of knots per square inch (KSPI)
- A higher KPSI requires greater skill on the part of the weaver and results in a higher-quality rug
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Rug Type-5'x8' (150x240cm) |
Time to Manufacture | Durability |
|---|---|---|
| Hand-Knotted | 5-12 months | 20+ years |
How To Identify:
Individual, often uneven knots are visible on the back of these rugs, mirroring the pattern visible on the front.
- Individual tufts of yarn are punched into a pre-made backing fabric with a special tufting gun
- This tool hooks and pulls yarn through the backing to form loops or piles
- This process is less skill and labor-intensive than hand-knotting, so rugs can be completed in a shorter amount of time
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Rug Type-5'x8' (150x240cm) |
Time to Manufacture | Durability |
|---|---|---|
| Hand-Tufted | 4-6 months | 3-10 years |
How To Identify:
These rugs have a canvas backing glued on to hold the knots in place and usually have a cut or cut and loop pile.
- Flat-weave rugs are created on a loom, rather than knotted or tufted
- These rugs are often reversible, with designs on both sides
- Because they only consist of warp and weft threads they don’t have the thickness of knotted and tufted rugs
- Flat-weave rugs are lightweight and often require rug pads to stay in place
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Rug Type-5'x8' (150x240cm) |
Time to Manufacture | Durability |
|---|---|---|
| Flat-Weave | 3-4 months | 20+ years |
How To Identify:
With their woven construction, these rugs are flat and don’t have a pile.
- Weavers use a loom to create these rugs by hand
- The loom holds the warp (vertical) threads in place and allows the interweaving of the weft (horizontal)
- Different looms are used to produce different types of rugs: including felted textures, shag, naturals or solid and border rugs
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Rug Type-5'x8' (150x240cm) |
Time to Manufacture | Durability |
|---|---|---|
| Hand-Loomed | Construction dependent (3-5 months) | 3-10 years |
How To Identify:
Hand-loomed rugs usually have a low to medium pile (other than shags, which have a deep pile) and can have a canvas backing added to them.
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Finalists for ARTS Awards announced
Furniture Today Staff - Furniture Today
Posted: Aug 20 2009
JDALLAS - ARTS Awards finalists in categories including accent furniture and area rugs have been announced by Dallas Market Center and the Accessories Resource Team.
The annual awards will be presented here Jan. 16 at a ceremony during the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market, which runs Jan. 13-19. Manufacturers, designers and retailers in a number of accessories categories also are recognized.
In accent furniture, the nominees are Bailey Street, Guildmaster, Palecek and Vintage. In the rug category, Jaipur Rugs, Loloi Rugs and Surya are vying for the prize.
In the product designer category, finalists are David Daugherty of Vintage, J. Michael Sandel of Guildmaster, Jason Phillips of The Phillips Collection, Maria Hoo of Roma and Palmer Earley of Architects & Heroes Interiors.
ARTS also has a furniture store category, with finalists named by region. They are Albert's Interiors, Newtown Square, Pa., and Sedlak Interiors, Solon, Ohio, in the East/Atlantic; High Fashion Home, Houston; HW Home, Boulder, Colo.; and The Arrangement, Dallas, in the Midwest/Southwest; and two California stores, Homescapes Carmel of Carmel and von Hemert Interiors of Costa Mesa in the West.
For a complete list of all nominees, see a story in Home Accents Today, a sister publication of Furniture/Today.
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