- 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 are just plain special
Mara Home Blog
Posted: Nov 21 2014 By Mara Home Blog
Textiles are the clothes that dress your home. Do you know where yours come from?
When I became a retail partner with Jaipur Rugs almost a decade ago, I was taken with the beauty and quality of their rugs and textile accents. As the issue of corporate responsibility in my partnerships became increasingly important to me, I happily discovered that Jaipur Rugs had been leading the way all along!
The Jaipur Rugs Foundation was created in 2004 with the mandate to reach out to remote rural areas in India and establish bonds with under-served communities, especially women, training them to weave rugs and providing the necessary support to create sustainable livelihoods. Jaipur Rugs group is known globally not just for exquisite rugs and other home furnishing products but also for their unique and inclusive business-development model that links these same grassroots artisans with world markets. You can learn more about their exciting projects, initiatives, and awards here: http://www.jaipurrugs.org/
Do you know where your home's clothes come from? If that's a Jaipur rug on your floor, now you do!
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