What you need to know about carpets and rugs

What you need to know about carpets and rugs

Nowadays, many products and services are offered in free market economies.

Machine Woven carpets are one kind of these products.

Today you can find a carprt with any design or color you can imagine

. In carpet markets, there are thousands of types of carpets and every year

we come across new types and designs that we have never seen before.

Iran is world famous for its machine-made and handmade carpets

Different types of carpet and how to recognize any one

In general, in order to better understand the wide range of carpets,

we need to know that carpets have a basic division based on how they are made,

which means that there are two  major types of carpets; Handmade carpets and machine made carpets.

Depending on how the carpets are woven, different types of machine-made carpets can be

distinguished from handmade. Also, in hand-woven carpets, the fringe is  a part of the carpet,

while in machine-made carpets, the fringe is sewn to the beginning and

end of the carpet after the carpet waeving process is finished.

Of course, today it is easy to distinguish machine-made carpets from handmade because all types of

machine-made carpets have the logo of the manufacturer. Perhaps the main difficulty in distinguishing

different types of handmade carpets from each other, for example, Iranian handmade carpets,

handmade carpets of Eas, Indian carpets, Iranian Sumac carpets, etc.

are all types of handmade carpets that have fundamental differences with each other.

The emergence of various types of machine-made carpets

Handicraft weaving has been common in Eastern cultures for hundreds of years,

and handmade carpets have an ancient history, but the history of

machine-made carpets is not very old and dates back to the 19th century.

 In the nineteenth century, during the Industrial Revolution, the modernization of

weaving machines began. weaving machines became fully automated over time,

and thanks to technological advances in this field, machine-made carpets are now

widely available to us. Carpet weaving machines can be programmed to weave intricate

carpet patterns automatically. The first production of machine-made carpets began in the

United Kingdom, where the two major knitting centers, Ax Mainster and Wilton, were born.

These two names are not only the names of the first two centers for machine-made

carpets, but also the names of two basic techniques for the carpet weaving industry.

 Reviews the features of machine-made and handmade carpets

In order to understand the characteristics of a machine-made carpet,

we must compare it with traditional types of handmade carpets,

so let’s first talk about the characteristics of a handmade carpet.

Quality and density of handmade carpets

Handmade carpets are produced in different qualities and with different materials.

Texture density and quality of raw materials are the main features of handmade carpets.

A good handmade rug that lasts for years should have a high texture density, about 90,000 knots per square meter.

Raw materials for handmade carpets

Smaller carpets are usually made of poor quality wool and are not very popular despite their

very affordable price. Quality wool should be shiny due to its natural fat.

Handmade rugs are usually rugs made from wool, silk, and less than sisal, cotton, and other fibers.

Handmade carpets can be made from handmade wool as well as machine spinning.

These carpets are traditionally dyed with natural plant-derived dyes, although today more artificial dyes are used.

The disadvantage of hand-woven rugs is that their wool becomes fluffy or falls out, but this is not the case with all rugs of this type.

Design and weaving method

Handmade carpets are uneven and their most important feature is the uniqueness of the design.

Carpet decoration can be modern, abstract, geometric or classic-traditional.

Making a handmade rug is a difficult task that takes a lot of time. To produce these carpets,

we need a weaving workshop, tools for spinning and dyeing, including a razor, a spindle and a knife.

Handmade rugs can be ordered in almost any size.

Iranian handmade carpets have many customers in different countries

Countries producing handmade carpets

Contemporary hand-woven carpets are

produced in regions from Morocco to West Asia,

from Romania and Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, the Caucasus,

Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, India and Tibet and Nepal to western China.

Prices of handmade carpets

Thanks to the features we have already mentioned

about handmade carpets, such carpets are more expensive

than machine-made products. Some types of handmade rugs

are considered works of art and are very valuable. For example,

consider a carpet that has one million knots per square meter.

This rug will be unique, durable and luxurious in the eyes of many people and is a good investment

. Features of machine made carpet

Variety in design, color and size

All types of machine-made carpets are woven and made in a fixed width during machine production.

Today, a large number of companies offer a wide range of models, designs and qualities due to the

variety of materials used to produce machine-made carpets. The color palette that can be used in a

machine carpet is limited to 10 primary colors. Machine woven,

after being woven, is cut in different designs and sizes and then, leveled and shaved

Today’s machine-made carpets are very diverse

Machine carpet is available in different sizes

from 60 * 90 cm to 300 * 400 cm and even bigger and in standard sizes.

Manufacturers of machine-made carpets In addition to

carpets, they also produce other products such as pads

and rectangular and square rugs. Carpets are perfectly

flat in terms of borderline and lint and usually do not take

up much dust.

The price of machine-made carpets

The production of machine-made carpets is very fast

and takes about an hour, which in turn reduces the price of these carpets compared to handmade carpets.

Raw materials used in machine-made carpets

Common materials used in the production of machine-made carpets are natural and synthetic yarns such as wool,

cotton, cape, viscose, polypropylene, acrylic and jute. Each of these materials has its own distinct and

unique properties. Carpets are also available in various densities. Lower quality carpets are less resistant to

abrasion and dirt. A high-density machine-made carpet is usually made with better raw materials.

Possibility to buy Iranian machine-made carpets from Amiran Carpet online store all over the world

Summary

In the end, it should be said that Iran is known as one of the countries of carpets in the world and every year,

various types of machine-made and handmade Iranian carpets are exported to neighboring countries.

Iran has a large presence in most foreign carpet exhibitions. Today, buying carpets has become much

easier than before, and in addition to the numerous carpet sales agencies that are present in most cities and towns,

Amiran online carpet sales store is also serving customers with all its might.

What you need to know about carpets and rugs