How to Buy an Oriental Rug
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Article by: Penny Krieger What exactly is an Oriental rug? This is always a good place , Pendleton Blankets- What's Behind This Famous Functional Art to start if one is considering a purchase as just this information , Making The Most Of Your Smart Decision To Hire An Interior Designer alone will give one clarification and insight into what one is seeking. As the countries in the East have always been considered the Orient, a hand woven rug, , Where to Find a Cheap Adjustable Bed made from wool, silk or cotton, from this part of the world is the genuine article. A little further delineation could be made if one also added in Western Europe, Northern Africa and Russia. I have seen beautiful , Making The Most Of Your Smart Decision To Hire An Interior Designer handmade rugs , Designer Look On A Budget - 10 Tips To Decorating On A Budget from Romania, Uzbekistan and Egypt as well as the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea above Iran. The most famous rug , Discount Furniture Stores weaving countries are Iran, Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, India and Turkey. This is a tradition that dates back thousands of years. The oldest complete rug , Personalized Childrens Furniture Can Be Fun and Easy to Create found in recent times was discovered in 1949 in a burial site of a Prince in the Pazarik Valley of the Altai Mountains in Siberia. It was frozen in permafrost for over 2500 years! The Pazyrk Carpet , Kitchen Cabinet Finishes and Design is permanently on display at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. You will find it depicted in the front of almost any rug , Advantages of Brass Chandeliers book in living color. , Advantages of Brass Chandeliers The rug , Is Vanilla Your Favorite Candle Scent? scholars are still arguing as to where it was woven but the exact same weaving techniques are still in use today. Oriental rugs , Advantages of Brass Chandeliers are not made in the Unites States although we do produce many machine made copies. These would be classified as "Oriental design" rugs. , Buying Furniture at Yard Sales An average 9 x 12 hand woven rug , Buying Baby Bedding takes a minimum of 3000 hours of weaving, to say nothing of the time spent on the design, , Art and Accessories in Interior dye preparation, spinning of the wool and the setting up of the loom. A Persian rug , How to Wash a Down Comforter is an Oriental rug , How To Light a Timber Frame Home but specifically woven in the country of Iran or if an antique (100 years old or more) woven in the former Persian Empire. All Persian rugs , Buying Baby Bedding ARE Oriental rugs , Removing Wallpaper Borders but not all Oriental rugs , 10 Tips to Care for Your Antique Glassware are Persian rugs. , Goose Down Comforters – Warm, Cozy, and Lightweight Hopefully, that makes sense. Probably the reason for this classification is the fact that the Persian weavers of the past were always leaders in design , Crystal Chandeliers and Art Glass Fixtures: Why we Love Them! and quality. Proof of this can be found in any major museum in the world and is evidenced most thoroughly by the fact that the majority of designs , Country Decorating Ideas - Create Warmth and Charm with Country Style Decorating Ideas even today, were originated by Persian weavers. Lets talk about basics. All Oriental rugs , A Touch of Elegance with Lighting are woven on a loom by hand. If made in a small village the loom is usually constructed of wood , A Review of Popular Ceiling Fan Manufacturers and not perfectly straight but if made in a professional workshop the loom would most likely be metal , Enhance The Look Of Your Bathroom With Trendy Shower Curtain Rods and more exactly designed. The loom is strung with vertical threads, which would be the starting point of any rug. , Home Décor for First Timers (no matter what your age) These threads are called warps and can be of cotton, wool or silk. Tying loops around a pair of the warps creates the design , Bamboo Flooring of the rug. , Dry Carpet Cleaning Each knot is tied and individually cut by hand. One by one, variously colored strands of wool are used to create the design, , A Touch of Elegance with Lighting one row at a time. After one row of knots have been completed, the weft is then inserted between the just completed row and the next one to be done. The wefts function to secure the knots in place , Ideas and Tips for Small Kitchen Remodeling and hold the rug , How To Light a Timber Frame Home together. Some weavers insert only one row of wefts between the rows of knots, others 2, 3, 4 and more. Most weavers are taught to weave at an early age by a family member and the choice of how many wefts or what type of knot to tie is influenced mainly by heritage and location , How To Light a Timber Frame Home of the weavers. Although many of the former nomadic (pastoral) weavers now reside in villages their rugs , Kitchen Cabinet Finishes and Design are more often than not a reflection of patterns woven for many generations in their area, each design , ing Your Kid’s Room is Child’s Play! motif being committed to memory. In the professional rug , Crystal Chandeliers and Art Glass Fixtures: Why we Love Them! workshops the choice of design , A Touch of Elegance with Lighting styles is normally dictated by the demands of the market, either overseas or locally. The warps and wefts are nearly always cotton or silk and the knot count is usually higher than that of village production. In rug , TV Entertainment Centers workshops the weaving is carefully supervised by a master weaver who is responsible for every loom under his watchful eye. In these workshops the weavers are following an exact design , Bamboo Flooring drawn out on graph paper with all color , Home Décor for First Timers (no matter what your age) choices predetermined. Tribal or village rugs , Teen Bedroom Furniture are often woven in the home , A Review of Popular Ceiling Fan Manufacturers with many of the design , Goose Down Comforters – Warm, Cozy, and Lightweight elements committed to memory. The opportunity for creativity in this arena is much greater. Tribal rugs , Buying Furniture at Yard Sales often are woven on a wool or cotton foundation. The "foundation" being another term for the warps and the wefts. There are of course exceptions to these general rules but basically these concepts hold true. Prior to the mid 19th century, many of the weaver's color , Crystal Chandeliers and Art Glass Fixtures: Why we Love Them! choices were dictated by the availability of certain plants , Ideas and Tips for Small Kitchen Remodeling in their region or what could be obtained by trade. Before the seminal year of 1860, when chemicle based dyes first appeared on the scene, these plant , How To Light a Timber Frame Home based dyes were all that were available. These dyes are called vegetable , Using Bamboo Blinds To Decorate Your Home dyes and have a distinct look about them. They age beautifully, work harmoniously together and the indigo dye, which creates all the ranges of blue, , Crystal Chandeliers and Art Glass Fixtures: Why we Love Them! even preserves the wool. Usually with vegetable , Dry Carpet Cleaning dyes one will see a slight or not so slight (depending on the skill , French Country Kitchen Design of the dyer) variation in the color , Buying Baby Bedding itself. Also affecting this is the consideration of the wool being used. Handspun wool, being less perfectly spun will accept the colors , How to Take Care of Your Teak Furniture of the dyes at different depths of the same shade and will show more variation in color , Discount Furniture Stores than machine spun wool. Deeply saturated wool will also show less color , A Touch of Elegance with Lighting variation which will only appear after the rug , A Luxury Featherbed Delivers The Ultimate Sleep Experience begins to age. This variation of color , How to Build Your Own Cuckoo Clock is termed "abrash" and adds a certain artistic quality and charm if not too pronounced. More recently, new production using vegetable , French Country Kitchen Design dyes and hand-spun wool has begun to appear in various areas. Started in Turkey in the 1980's by a government sponsored program, Iran quickly followed and now there are a number or areas where these great dyes, excellent quality hand-spun wool and traditional designs , Floor Mats are being used to create new rugs , Plus Size Lingerie or more precisely, new works of art! These rugs , How to Wash a Down Comforter could easily be the "antiques" of tomorrow as the weavers creativity and skill , Enhance The Look Of Your Bathroom With Trendy Shower Curtain Rods is beautifully brought to fruition. Additionally, there is another weaving technique, which is similar to a Navajo rug , Wood Display Cases called a kelim. This rug , The Importance Of Themes In Living Room Decorating is virtually all warps and wefts as there is no pile. This also is an Oriental rug , How to Take Care of Your Teak Furniture but not as time consuming to weave. The patterns on kelims are normally geometric based designs , Teen Bedroom Furniture using large areas of color. , TV Entertainment Centers These rugs , How to Use an Oil Diffuser work quite well in contemporary interiors , How to Use an Oil Diffuser and are often used as wall , How to Use an Oil Diffuser hangings. Many are quite unique and beautiful , How to Use an Oil Diffuser although not as hard wearing as a knotted rug. , Enhance The Look Of Your Bathroom With Trendy Shower Curtain Rods In the past most of these kelims were woven for the weaver's own use and have only recently become more common in the marketplace. What is important in evaluating an Oriental Rug? After my many hundreds of hours spent purchasing rugs , Beaded Curtains for my retail business I have come up with the following basics. One of the most important factors in a rug , Bathroom Vanities: The Focal Point are the colors , Buying Furniture at Yard Sales used and their combinations. Following this would be the actual design , ing Your Kid’s Room is Child’s Play! elements and how they are put together. Are they pleasing to the eye? Does the rug , Kitchen Cabinet Finishes and Design improve as one looks at it? Is there a sense of balance and depth? Another important factor is the quality of the wool. What one wants to avoid is "dead wool" taken off an already butchered sheep with a caustic lye type substance. This wool is very dry to the touch, has a dull cast and very inexpensive for the weavers to purchase. Rugs , Goose Down Comforters – Warm, Cozy, and Lightweight woven with this type of wool do not wear well and are often sold for next to nothing which is exactly what they are worth. A rug , Making The Most Of Your Smart Decision To Hire An Interior Designer woven with excellent wool can easily survive 50 years or more with very little wear if cared for properly. Good quality wool will actually improve the more it is walked on and will developed an antique patina or sheen that is highly sought after by rug , Floor Mats collectors. The moral of the story is to touch the wool, rub the palm , Buying Furniture at Yard Sales of your hand across the face of the rugs. , Bamboo Flooring Compare it to another rug. , How to Use an Oil Diffuser It should not feel overly dry or stiff. Pick the rug , Wallpaper up by the edge and see how much it weighs! A hard wearing rug , Clocks For Your Home And Your Lifestyle will have some "body" to it. This of course, would not apply to silk as the weight of a silk rug , A Touch of Elegance with Lighting is much lighter. Silk will feel cold , How to Build Your Own Cuckoo Clock to the touch and will have a distinctive shine! Examine the rug , Goose Down Comforters – Warm, Cozy, and Lightweight carefully by walking around it and viewing it from every possible angle. Glossy wool often reflects light , Hanging Curtains? 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Always take your time when making a purchase and if possible it is usually best to try the rug , 10 Tips to Care for Your Antique Glassware in your home , Storage: Solutions That Are Easier Than You Think for a day or two. This is called taking the rug , Bamboo Flooring on approval and any dealer of merit will easily agree to this in home , How to Take Care of Your Teak Furniture trial period. Find a retailer that you like, feel confident with and one that offers the types of rugs , Plus Size Lingerie that you find most pleasing and you're on your way! http://www.paradiseorientalrugs.com © Penny Krieger 2006Penny Krieger is the owner of Paradise Oriental Rugs, , Is Vanilla Your Favorite Candle Scent? Inc., formerly located in Santa Rosa, CA. She now sells Oriental Rugs , Interior Decorating - Select the Correct Paint Sheen for Every Decorating Project! on an appointment basis in Sonoma and Marin Counties in Northern CA, specializing in unique vegetable , Wallpaper dyed rugs , Country Decorating Ideas - Create Warmth and Charm with Country Style Decorating Ideas from Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. To see many of her beautiful rugs , How To Light a Timber Frame Home go to: http://www.paradiseorientalrugs.com Attention Publishers: If you would like to publish this article please ensure you adhere strictly to the TERMS OF SERVICE for Publishers on this website! |
  
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