- 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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Capel, Loloi and Nourison Among Winners at America’s Magnificent Carpet Awards
Home Furnishing News (HFN)
Posted: Jan 13 2014
ATLANTA–The America’s Magnificent Carpet Awards took place this past Friday, during the Atlanta International Area Rug Market. Recognizing the best design in the industry, the awards were held this time at the Hyatt Regency. Jeff Portman, chief operating officer of AmericasMart, kicked off the evening, and then former AmericasMart executive Chas Sydney again hosted the event.
In the handhooked/handtufted category, for rugs selling from ,0-8 per square foot, Capel Rugs won for a Kevin O’Brien design introduced last fall. In the ,8.01-16 per square foot group, Jaipur won the first of two awards that evening.
This Kevin O’Brien design from Capel won an America’s Magnificent Carpet Award.
In the handknotted/flatweave category, Marcella Fine Rugs won for rugs from ,0-30 per square foot, Loloi won for rugs from ,30-50 per square foot, F.J. Kashanian for rugs from ,50.01-,100 and Anadol Rug for rugs over ,100.01 per square foot.
In the machine-made category, Oriental Weavers of America won in the ,0-400 group, while Nourison won in the over ,400 group.
In the outdoor category, Couristan received the award. And Jaipur won its second award in the licensing category.
The judges for the awards this year were Annette Joseph, an expert on entertaining, cooking and styling who regularly appears on The Today Show; interior designer Darcy Adler and Sharian Garner of Oriental rug dealer Sharian Rugs.
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