- 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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JAIPUR Rugs AWARDED NASSCOM SOCIAL INNOVATION HONORS 2014
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Posted: Mar 30 2014
ATLANTA – Jaipur Rugs was awarded the NASSCOM Social Innovation Honors 2014 which celebrates the spirit of innovation and technology for social good. The award was conferred under the ‘ICT led Social Innovation by a Corporate’ (Responsible Business) category.
The Honors recognize innovations that creatively leverage information and communication technology to create solutions to address gaps in social development. The Honors have recognized innovations focused on financial inclusion, employability, education, health, employability, governance, financial inclusion, and citizen services in the past.
“Carpet weaving has been the main means of livelihoods for a number of artisans in India. The award recognizes Jaipur Rugs for using a unique social entrepreneurship model leveraging Information Communication Technology (ICT) to encourage the craft among the communities. The recognition is further attributed to Jaipur Rugs’ capacity in facilitating research, using quality driven technology in the rug industry and using eco-friendly technology in designing the rugs,” according to NASSCOM Foundation.
Jaipur Rugs has deployed ICT to streamline the production process starting from yarn production to delivery of products, generating employment for 40,000 grassroots level people. Technology is used to create designs for the carpets; villages are linked using Virtual Private Networks. Jaipur Rugs uses technology effectively for the rest of the process – monitoring, quality check, date recording and analysis etc. making the process more efficient and impactful.
NASSCOM Foundation is driving technology for good. The Foundation’s work is just as expansive and evolutionary as the potential that technology and corporate India entail. The Foundation works in partnership with four major stakeholders: NASSCOM member companies, NGOs, emerging social enterprises, and Government, changing India bit by bit, a journey to foster a strategic relationship between technology and development.
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