What is carpet?
Carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool. A carpet is used for variety of purposes such as Rugs, Bags, Shoes, Phone Cover and etc. The beginning of carpet weaving remains unknown but, woven rugs probably developed from earlier floor coverings, made of felt, or a technique known as flat weaving and later on developed into a technique known as loop weaving. Loop weaving is done by pulling the weft strings over a gauge rod, creating loops of thread facing the weaver.
In most Rugs, the pile is of sheep’s wool. Its characteristics and quality vary from each area to the next, depending on the breed of sheep, climatic conditions, pasturage, and the particular customs relating to when and how the wool is shorn and processed. The weaving of pile rugs is a time-consuming process which, depending on the quality and size of the rug, may take anywhere from a few months to several years to complete. Various forms of flat-weaves exist including Kilim, Jajim & Suzani.
Kilim
Kilim are flat tapestry–woven carpets or rugs produced from the Balkans to Pakistan. Kilims can be purely decorative or used for making bags and shoes. Modern kilims are popular floor-coverings in Western households. Wool is the primary and often the only material used to make a kilim rug. Many kilims are made totally from wool where it is used for both warps and wefts, and wool is the primary weft material used with cotton warps, which accounts for the great majority of all kilims.
Jajim
Jajim or Jajem means a “Thick cloth” like “Palas” and also a kind of two-sided carpet, which is thinner than Palas. Jajim is woven with colorful and fine threads of wool or mixture of silk and wool. It is a hand weave with no fluff and its two surfaces could be used. It is a tribal weaving and used as a coverlet or protector from coldness.
Suzani
Suzani is a type of embroidered and decorative tribal textile which is from the word Suzan that means needle. Suzanis usually have a cotton (sometimes silk) fabric base, which is embroidered in silk or cotton thread. Suzanis were traditionally made by Central Asian brides as part of their dowry, and were presented to the groom on the wedding day. These hand-embroidered vintage suzanis are infused with the character that only comes from everyday use. The story of each of these suzanis is as rich as their colors, as intricate as the designs that cover their surfaces.
Palas
Palas, Pileless, handwoven floor covering made in most of the rug-weaving areas of the Middle East. The term is used variously as a label for rugs woven in different techniques, and usage varies with the location. While slit-tapestry Kilims are described as Palas in the Caucasus, the term is most frequently used to refer to several types of fabric woven . There it is posited that the Kilim looks essentially the same on both sides, but the Palas has one side intended to be turned upward and one side to face the floor. The Turkmen Palas, as woven by the Yomut, Tekke, and Ersari tribes, is a large rug with a diamond grid and narrow borders in which blue yarn forms the design on a deep red field.
silk
Silk is used both in the warp, weft and pile in finer, smaller carpets from Isfahan, Ghom, Nain and in some Keshans and also in Turkish made Hereke. Some carpets have the warp of silk and pile of wool where some details of the pattern are made of silk.
Pictorial carpet
Pictorial carpet or picture carpet is an ornamental rug specially prepared for hanging on room and hall walls for decoration. The designs and samples on pictorial carpets are completely different from those on common floor rugs. Pictorial carpets are generally made of silk but they have also been made from wool. Pictorial carpets are usually framed to sell and use. Pictorial carpets are being woven exactly the same way as the rug has been made over the past 2500 years so it is no different in quality. The main difference is that in pictorial carpet, there is not the ancient design and it always has a picture or scenery that are much more colorful with many different scenes. They can be framed in the same way as art work or painting and they are designed to be hung on the wall.
Symbols in our products
The mysterious shapes, which we describe as symbols, lie on the boundary between reality and imagination. We cannot dismiss them as mere figments of the imagination and without significance, however, even though we may not understand them. They might appear to the uninitiated to be subjective, but in fact, they are strictly governed by cultural rules and principles. Symbols reflect the very origins of art when the individual first became aware of the sacred aspect of nature and they gradually came to embody all the diverse socio-cultural elements of human existence.