Sumak Rug

Sumak Rug

MASTERPIECE HAND WOVEN CARPET… 8×10 CHOBI SUMAK RUG $640.00

MASTERPIECE HAND WOVEN CARPET… 6×9 CHOBI SUMAK RUG $435.00

MASTERPIECE HAND WOVEN CARPET… 6×9 CHOBI SUMAK RUG $435.00

MASTERPIECE HAND WOVEN CARPET… 6×9 CHOBI SUMAK RUG $435.00

MASTERPIECE HAND WOVEN CARPET… 8×10 CHOBI SUMAK RUG $640.00

Oriental Rugs – handmade carpets are worth the cost?

If you started to look around Nice Handmade Oriental rugs and Turkish carpet in your home, you've probably noticed that it is not cheap. handmade carpets Sometimes, they are expensive, but there are good reasons for this. Hand Anything is better than machine-made counterpart, if it is a hand knit a piece of handmade jewelry, or a rug by hand.

Now you can be sitting there telling you what most people tend to think: "Why should I pay for a title = "Tribal rugs"> tribal rugs, when I can walk down the street and buy a machine-made carpets for a fraction of the price. "There is a very good answer this question. Handmade carpets more value and vice versa many products handmade others, handmade carpets actually increase in value over time.

OK, let's step back a bit. Let's start with the process of making these handmade rugs. Firstly, the materials must be collected and prepared. These are all natural materials, including the quality of the wool of sheep raised the best and natural dyes to create vibrant colors used in carpet. So before the carpets are made, time must be to collect the wool washing, carding and spinning by hand. Then, the wool is dyed. Once done, run the fabric itself.

The carpet weaving is done on a loom. some tissues the carpet is made with cotton ropes, which are fixed on the loom and wool is hand tied in the ropes of cotton. To end a row of knots may take several hours depending on the size of the carpet. Attention to detail is incredible and wrote a weaver fabric too tight. A rug is 6 feet by 9 feet can take 4-6 months to create and that if a person who knits for hours each day. Imagine how much labor it is.

After the rug is completely woven, will be carefully inspected to ensure there no flaws or defects. The battery is checked to ensure it is even beyond the mat cutting areas that need to compensate. Then the carpet is slightly washed to remove excess dye, then dried and prepared for shipment.

In addition to making carpets, each Oriental rug is completely unique. No mass production and everyone is a true work of art. These carpets are designed and manufactured by people who risk their life and culture in their work. With proper care of carpets are not with age, but they look better with each step year and its value increases over time, like any work of art. See, for example, colors and beauty of carpet old.

See how in the production title = "Traditional rug"> traditional carpets. The month of weaving and during inspection comes after the fabric is finished. Then, of course, is the preparation of materials before weaving. Not surprisingly, these mats so expensive? After all, if you spent months weaving a carpet and it was their life, then you want to be well paid for it. Not only is the process of labor, but the carpet is a very high grade and will last much longer than machine-made carpets.

About the Author

Hakan is an expert of handmade rugs such as Oriental rugs, Turkish rugs and Tribal rugs.

He is working as sales manager at CarpetView.com, the top quality Handmade Oriental rug online provider. CarpetView began as a simple carpet shop in Cappadocia, Turkey called Le Bazaar d’Orient. It was founded in 1973 by the Guzelgoz family. Since then it has become one of the finest Turkish and oriental rugs shops in the world.

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