Carpets and Rugs from India

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Carpets and Rugs from India

Indian carpets are famous all over the world for their beauty, finesse and designs. The tradition of weaving carpets flourished in India during the Mughal era. The Mughals not only brought and used the Persian technique of carpet weaving in India, but were also influenced by traditional designs and motifs from Persia.

Mughal carpets were as intricate as their miniatures and often depicted court life, animals and floral decorations. From the Mughals, the craft of weaving carpets spread to different regions of India, and the trend of using them has become an international craze today. States like Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, and

others have their distinctive tradition of carpet weavings. Gabbe woolen carpets, chain stitch rugs and carpets, and namdas are also made in India. Durries are traditional Indian flooring and a cheap alternate to carpets. Durries come in a variety of designs and styles. Durrie weaving is common to many states. Mats are made out of a variety of natural material like, bamboo, grass, jute, coir etc. India has a varied mat making tradition. Bihar, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Norheastern states all have distinct mat weaving traditions of their own. Carpets from India are considered a must for royal home decor and home furnishing accessories. Displayed here are some of the exquisite Indian carpets and rugs that you can buy online from our store.

carpet: India

Indians could be considered as the symbol of great interest in handicrafts

specially in weaving. Because of hot weather and usual humidity of India, piled

carpet weaving and its usage have not become common. Carpet weaving in India, is also a rural and dOmestic handicraft, which is mostly done for export purposes.

Iranian weavers were the originators of carpet weaving, with Iranian designs, in this country. These designs besides the high quality of Cashmere wool, resulted the flourish of Indian carpet. India is one of the most important countries in silk carpet exports. Dyeing is an old industry in India and carpets have usually mild colors, which are mostly ordered by customers.

Dimensions of hand-made carpets depend on customer’s order, but common sizes are:

Carpet: 2.74X1.83 to 4.57X3.66

Rug: 1.83X0.92to2.14X1.22

Most of Indian carpets are bellow “26” wales and only 5% of them have “32” to “40” wales number. Knots are asymmetric Persian type.

Nowadays, the general design of hand-mode carpets in India, is a collection of Iranian, Chinese, Moroccan, French and Turkmen patterns, which are drawn in any size by skillful local designers and woven by weavers. 65% of Indian carpet

designs are Iranian, like Sarough, Hamadan, Tabriz, Kashan, Isfahan, Khorasan, l$% French and the rest 20.%..aresirnple injag., ..

Some1ofodmmon indian carpets are as follows

Dilara: A type of poor quaiity cotton hand-made kilim, Which is woven in Punjab.

Darmi: It is an ancient type woven like a mat.

Harami: Various types of large carpets, which are woven for mosques.

The Legend of Indian Carpets

Indian Carpets are renowned the world over for their exquisite designs, subtle elegance, attractive colours and workmanship. The magnificence of Indian carpet weaving and the intricate patterns that have emerged from it have substantially increased India’s carpet exports and placed it prominently in the international carpet map.

Carpet weaving was brought to India by the great Mughal Emperor Akbar in the 16th century. Some of the most exclusive carpets were created during the Mughal reign, each carpet unlike the other but infused with a common magic of colours and design.

The carpet weaver has gradually grown as an artist, a creator who could weave poetry in to his designs and every knot he tied, giving a touch of aesthetic beauty to his creations.

A carpet weaver’s skills are his own and the designs he evolves are from his mind to be translated in to

beautiful form with the help of wool and silk.

Infusing Colour

Colours fascinate. And when they are blended with material and designs, they acquire a radiance that is alive. Indian carpets are renowned for their exotic colours.

At the beginning of the 20th century, nature was the most important

source of perfect dyes and subtle and attractive colours.

Madder, which grows almost everywhere, was the most important colourant of vegetable origin. Its root provided the whole range of pinks and reds and with the green from the grass and brown from the kiker tree.

This gave the weaver a wide choice. Nowadays, all types of natural dyes are used.

The feel

From the outset, wool has been the basic material for the knotted woollen carpet.

The wool used forthe pile has a variety of origins, the use related to the role for which the carpet is being woven.

However silk is commonly used in handknotted silk carpets in Kashmir where the weaver also has access to the wool of the highest quality.

Pattern in a carpet is as much an integral part of the carpet as colouring. The Indian carpet weaver freed carpets from the limitation of space, repeated intricate and infinite patterns in an ordered symmetry and wove abstract symbols into dense ornamentation.

Designing Excellence

The figurative was combined with the geometric and floral with the arabesque. The usual procedure adopted by the weaver is to draw his designs and transfer them to graph paper on which each square represents a single knot.

Then the paper is divided into varying parts depending on whether the pattern is intended for the centre medallion or for a part os a repeated pattern, these sheets of paper are then passed on to the knotting workshop.

The other manner followed by the weavers of Kashmir and Amritsar is the ‘Talim’ which demands time and experience. A coded colour chart indicates the number of knots to be woven in their respective colours. The master-weaver reads aloud from it and the weavers follows his directions