A knotted-pile carpet is a carpet containing raised surfaces, or piles, from the cut off ends of knots woven between the warp and weft. The Ghiordes/Turkish...

most prevalent in oriental rugs and carpets. Kashmir carpets are also hand-knotted. Pile carpets, like flat carpets, can be woven on a loom. Both vertical...

weft, and compacted by beating with a comb. It seems likely that knotted-pile carpets have been produced by people who were already familiar with extra-weft...

protects against the cold Scandinavian climate. Ryas are a knotted pile carpet, with each knot composed of three strands of wool, which enables the rug...

Knot density is a traditional measure for quality of handmade or knotted pile carpets. It refers to the number of knots, or knot count, per unit of surface...

with wool or silk in the pile, and wool, cotton or silk in the foundation. Kerman is known for finely knotted, elegant carpets with prominent cochineal...

manufactory of knotted-pile carpets, enjoying its greatest period c. 1650–1685; the cachet of its name is casually applied to many knotted-pile carpets made at...

no shedding devices. Pile carpets generally do not use shedding for the pile, because each pile thread is individually knotted onto the warps, but there...

European manufactory of knotted-pile carpets, represented through 18th-century French designs and colours. In 2010, the carpet honoured the Belgian presidency...

which were historically dominated by the Ottoman Empire. It denotes a knotted, pile-woven floor or wall covering which is produced for home use, local sale...

Cut Knotted Tufted Woven Cord Twist Carpet pile Pile weave Polar fleece Textile pilling "Pile." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. "pile", Dictionary...

Qaleen (Kaleen, Kalin, قالین) is a type of hand knotted piled carpet. The term is used throughout Turkey, Iran and Central Asia, and making qaleens is...

Ryijy is a woven Finnish long-tufted tapestry or knotted-pile carpet hanging. The name ryijy originated with the Scandinavian word rya, which means "thick...

a type of hand knotted piled carpet. It is a product of Kashmiri handicraft, these are handknotted intricately designed piled carpets made with wool or...

they are woven more often. Pile heights are 1.5-2.0 mm for silk carpets and 4.0-5.0 mm for wool carpets. Since Hereke carpets are frequently woven, the...

carpets are distinguished by a loop pile construction type that gives a similar appearance to the distinct knot of traditionally woven Berber carpets...

of Near-Eastern origin. This is the earliest surviving knotted-pile carpet. Pazyryk-5 carpet, Near-Eastern horsemen detail The most famous undisturbed...

Pazyryk and Bashadar sites, including the world's oldest surviving knotted-pile carpet and a well-preserved wooden chariot, both from the 4th–3rd centuries...

machine-made (see carpet). Woven rugs include both flat rugs (for example kilims) and pile rugs. The more tightly a rug is woven or knotted, the more detailed...

textiles recovered from the Pazyryk burials include the oldest woollen knotted-pile carpet known, the oldest embroidered Chinese silk, and two pieces of woven...

Ryijy ('rya' in Swedish), a woven Finnish long-tufted tapestry or knotted-pile carpet hanging This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...

The term Armenian carpet (Armenian: Հայկական գորգ; haykakan gorg) designates, but is not limited to, tufted rugs or knotted carpets woven in Armenia or...

rug making. Knotted pile or knotted weave is the method of weaving used in most rugs. In this technique the rug is woven by creation of knots. A short piece...

wool pile hand-made Turkmen carpets from Turkmenistan. The principal activities of the corporation are the production and sale of Turkmen carpets and rugs...

The pile was to be knotted with the symmetrical knot, which was traditionally used in the region, and would provide a thicker and heavier pile as compared...

knotted-and-cut pile furnishing textile produced in England from the sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Turkeywork was used for table carpets...

asymmetrical knot on cotton foundation, but less frequent examples incorporate silk or part silk piles, or silk foundations with wool pile. Due to the...

centuries.1 Some scholars will classify flat-woven carpets as Bessarabian, while referring to knotted-pile carpets as Ukrainian.2 They are predominantly from...

"Sardorud". Different types of carpets were made here, including pile and flat-weave, with simple and complex composition. The carpet making art was passed on...

originate in Kållandsö because of its design. The Marby Rug is a knotted-pile carpet found in a church in Jämtland, central Sweden in 1925. It is believed...