How to Identify a Good Quality of Handmade Rug

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How to Identify a Good Quality of Handmade Rug
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Handmade carpet is a very exclusive item which
you cannot buy from street-side shops. Buying a
handmade carpet means spending a lot of money.
Find the best ways to analyse the good quality
handmade carpet.
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Material
Handmade carpets are woven in natural materials
like pure New Zealand wool, pure silk, cotton,
jute, viscose etc. If you want to check that the
rug is made in pure silk or in artificial silk
then pull a small thread from the rug and burn,
it will produce the smell of burnt hair. It means
this is pure silk.
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Technique
Handmade rugs is woven in three types of
techniques like hand knotted techniques, hand
tufted techniques, and flat woven techniques.
Traditional carpets are woven in hand-knotted
techniques
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Pile and knots
Two more things you can examine in a handmade
carpet are the knots per inch (KPI) and the
length of the rugs pile. Once you have
determined how the rug was manufactured, knowing
the number of knots contained in a single
square-inch can help you evaluate the
manufacturing time period. Because handmade
carpet takes minimum 3-12 months to weave(
depends on size of carpet)
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Check the back of carpet
You can check the back part of carpet. If the
carpet contains uniform piles it means this is
not handmade because the handmade carpet cannot
contain the uniform piles due to handmade.
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Check the color fastness
A handmade carpet contains fast color. If you
want to check that it is a superior quality rug
or not then rubs your hand on the carpet. If the
carpet bleeds even a little bit it means this is
not handmade carpet.
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