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Home furnishings > Oriental 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.

heatset

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Twisted yarns are treated with heat to retain their "permanent wave" for better performance and appearance retention.

indigo

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Different blue shaded dyes obtained from the leaves of the indigo plant.

knot

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

A knot is formed when wool, cotton or silk yarn is looped around the warp threads. There are different procedures for knotting and each knot type has a name, for example there is ...

knot count

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The number of knots in a square " of a rug. Hand made Chinese rugs are often described in terms of "line." A 65 Line rug would have 65 knots per foot of width, 65 knots per foot ...

knotted pile

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

The type of weaving most associated with oriental rugs in which tufts of wool forming pile are wrapped around one or more (usually two) warps to project at right angles to the ...

natural dyes

Home furnishings; Oriental rugs

Dyes derived from insects or from the earth, which includes madder root, indigo, milkweed, pomegranate, osage, cutch and cochineal.

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