How to buy a Persian rug

I often help friends and relatives to buy Persian rugs. A while ago, I visited a friend and I found out she had paid a great deal of money to buy a fake silk Persian rug. She had bought it before I met her. The rug looked terrible. I did not tell her of course but I thought I would write a small guid here so that I can forward the link in case my assistance is required for freinds. That might help some other people too in an unlikely event that they read this page.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

How to tell the difference between hand made and machine made rugs.

I promised I tell you how to distinguish between a machine made rug and a hand made one. Here you are:

You can see significant visual differences between the machine made and handmade rugs. The easiest one for beginners is that the back of the machine made rug is much less colourful than it is on the face. It looks like it is not the same dye.

Above image is credit of http://www.jacobsenrugs.com/m-made.htm.

In addition, in hand made rugs the weave and the knots will be slightly uneven and not perfectly uniform, unless it is a very fine rug above 60-70 Raj.

1 comment:

AnonymousSeptember 27, 2014 at 12:33 AM
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