Oriental rugs

Oriental rugs

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Oriental rugs

Needlepoint rugs

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A rugs making technique made with wool yarns worked on canvas using the same method as a needlepoint rugs pillow.

Nylon

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Durable synthetic fibre which also has good dyeing characteristics. Nylon yarns can be solution dyed, skein dyed and/or space dyed.

Re-fringe

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Repair fringe of rug using the selvedge or part of the rug.

Knot count

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The number of knots in a square " of a rug. Hand made Chinese rugs are often described in terms of "line." A 65 Line rug would have 65 knots per foot of width, 65 knots per foot of length, and 29 ...

A knot is formed when wool, cotton or silk yarn is looped around the warp threads. There are different procedures for knotting and each knot type has a name, for example there is a Turkish (Ghiordes) ...

Knotted pile

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The type of weaving most associated with oriental rugs in which tufts of wool forming pile are wrapped around one or more (usually two) warps to project at right angles to the plane of the weaving. ...