Different rug warps
Warps used by different countries.
- China—Cotton.
- Asia Minor—Silk or wool on old rugs, although since 1948
cotton has been used extensively.
- Spain—Wool, goat, linen, later cotton.
- France—Wool, later carpets flax.
- England—Hemp or flax, wool (eighteenth century), cotton
(end of nineteenth century).
(/) India—Cotton, hemp or silk.
(g] Caucasus—Wool (modern Erivan rugs have cotton).
(h) Turkestan—Wool, hair and wool, never cotton.
(i) Pakistan—Cotton.
(/) Persia—Cotton, silk or wool.
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Kelim carpets made in India have cotton warps.
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Kelim carpets made in Russia and Persia have wool
warps.
How you will use Key Mo. 6, for example:
(h) A Bokhara rug in Turkestan will have wool and hair warp
(fringes). (*) A Bokhara design rug made in Pakistan will have a cotton
warp (fringes).
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