Raw Materials, Wool or Silk

The wool or Silk for Persian and Oriental Rugs is chosen from the best available variety all around the world. Special care is applied to obtain extra long fiber to give additional strength and a longer life to the rug.

Dyeing the Wool or Silk

Persian & Oriental Rugs have distinctly colorful design, created using both Natural and Synthetic Dyes. Natural Dyes are made from Vegetable or Mineral sources, Synthetic dyes are made from either aniline or chrome. Examples for natural dyes are: Saffron and Oak Apples for Yellow Dyes, Indigo for Blue, Madder Roots for Red tone and as well as Henna and Flowers.

Rug's Design

Design serves as the building block of a carpet. It is drawn on a graph paper and watercolors are used for the color combination. It is then, translated into the weavers' code language called ‘Talim', which gives life to the designers creation.

Rug's Weaving

The weavers, weave their soul and character into the carpet they construct, therefore, each hand knotted carpet depicts a nature of its own. Each knot is woven with utmost care and excellence to give you the very best.

Rug's Washing

Washing of the carpet is another laborious task, spanning over a four to five days of step-by-step process, using different natural minerals, brings out the natural color and shine of the weavers creation.

Rug's Drying

The next phase is of drying all carpets in the sun to give them the ultimate look that will adorn your dwelling.

Rug's Clipping

After sun drying the rug undergo the clipping phase. This process imparts an equivalent look to the wool. It is an inevitable process, which is responsible for enhancing the details of the hand woven rug’s design and its colors.

Rug's Stretching

Stretching is applied to straighten the rug. Not every rug has to go through this process. Different methods are used to make this process as effective as possible.

Rug's Fringes

Fringes are tied a knot at the end to impart durability to the rug and to ensure life long use of the hand made rug.

A Completed Persian Handmade Rug

It takes a few words to describe the final product. “A Divine Contemplation, woven by human hands!”

Persian Knot = Asymmetrical Knot

The Persian knot is knotted asymmetrically around two adjacent warp threads; the weft thread is wrapped completely around one warp thread and looped under the next, thus covering half of it.

Turkish Knot = Symmetrical Knot

The Turkish knot is knotted around two warp threads. Both ends of the weft thread are wrapped completely around the warp threads and then pulled out between them and cut off. This double knot technique is what makes Turkish Rugs so strong and durable.

Weaver's Tools

Most weavers work with a hooked knife, or gollab in one hand. A weaver uses a finger to push the yarn through the warps, then uses the hook on the knife to catch the yarn behind the warps and pull it to the face of the rug. After the knot is tied the weaver cuts the yarn with a flick of the blade. After several rows of knots are tied across the width of the loom, the weaver uses a comb or beater made of metal or wood to beat down the warps and rows of knots to consolidate the weave. After a strip of pile an inch or so wide is woven across the width of the loom, the weaver uses special rugs scissors to clip the nap back to nearly its final height.