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Oriental rugs

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Oriental rugs

Fur rugs

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

There's nothing quite like natural fur rugs for adding elegance, style, comfort and warmth to your home. Professional interior designers all rely on fur rugs for adding special accents to rooms and ...

Hand knotted rugs

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Oriental Rugs made by weavers who knot pile yarns around the warp fibres that run the length of the rug. Generally, the more knots per square ", the more valuable the hand knotted rugs.

Hand-made

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Constructed by hand. The category can include hand knotted rugs, hand tufted rugs, hand hooked rugs, Needlepoint, Aubusson and hand loomed rugs.

Hand hooked (hand tufted)

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Rug-making process by which craftsmen insert yarn into a backing with a hand held single-needle tufting tool. The machine is often called a "gun." The rugs pattern is stencilled on primary backing ...

Ground

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Background colour which sets off the principle design motif of the rug.

Foundation

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The warp and weft is the basis/foundation of a rug.

Fringe

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Warps extending from the ends of a rug which are treated in several ways to prevent the wefts and knots from unravelling.

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