We are pleased to share that we have been dealing in Handmade Carpets and Kilims for the last 20 years and enjoying wonderful reputation in Islamabad. We have full trust of our prestigious clients mostly diplomats and employees of international organizations.
Our specialized area is mix of new and semi-old Carpets and Kilims from Central Asian Countries including Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. We maintained a good stock and most of that is collected one by one at the doorstep level with the help of local providers. We also commission weavers to make Pakistani carpets (single and double knot). We maintained a separate history of our each Carpets and Kilim and the same is shared with our clients during their visit to our Store. We also provide detailed history of each of the items purchased from our Store. Arrangement for shipping carpets to our valued clients all over the world at the doorstep is also available.
Carpet History
Tribal Carpets and Kilims explore one of mankind’s oldest surviving forms of artistic expression, encompassing knotted and flat woven rugs, Kilims, bags, and related objects from tribal and village populations of Asia. Only a tiny portion of this tradition’s immense creative output has survived to the present day. Some of what remains was woven primarily to trade or sell. Other pieces, unrelated to commerce, served functions in daily tribal life; these examples represent the art in its purest form. Rarely in human history have articles destined for hard use in a subsistence way of life reached such levels of complexity and beauty. In stark contrast with the violent histories of the tribes that produced these objects, the weavings themselves reveal an artistic heritage of remarkable sensitivity, one that has come to the attention of western art historians only recently.
Carpets were formerly woven to protect the body from cold, to be spread on a dais or before a seat of honor, to cover a table, couch, or wall, or to form the curtains of a tent. There is evidence of the existence of hand-woven carpets in antiquity. In the mountainous regions of the East stretching from Turkey through Persia and Central Asia into China even some parts of Pakistan, where the fleece of the sheep and the hair of the camel and goat grow long and fine, the art of carpet-weaving reached its height early in the 16th cent. The artisan worked on a handloom consisting essentially of two horizontal beams on which the warp (the vertical threads) was stretched; on the lower one the finished carpet was rolled while the warp unrolled from the upper one. The yarn for the pile, spun and dyed by hand, was cut in lengths of about 2 in. (5.1 cm) and knotted about the warp threads. After a row of knots had been placed across the width of the loom, two or more weft, or horizontal, threads of cotton or flax were woven in and beaten into place with a heavy beater, or comb. The tufts, or pile, thus appeared only on the face of the fabric, which when completed was sheared to perfect smoothness. Although the hair of the camel and the goat was used in the weaving of Oriental rugs, the wool of the sheep was the essential component. Beautiful silk rugs interwoven with gold thread were also made in the 16th and 17th cent. To some degree, the quality of a carpet depends on the materials used and the number of knots per square inch of surface, which may vary from 40 to 1,000 and in some exceptional cases 2,000. Also produced in these regions are the geometrically patterned and flat woven rugs known as Kilims.
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