Kashan carpet industries a leading company with artisan background keeps private collection of hand knotted old and antique tribal carpets from Central Asia.
Also we are in manufacturing of Silken and woollen cottage carpets by skilled-minded artisans under observation of award winner high experienced person. We feel able to fill any kind of ordered carpet.
Silk carpet : design of carpets to be created by designer on a graph then an artist with high patience and experience follows the pattern. Almost using chemical dyeing very rare vegetable dyeing. clarity of design depends on Knottage of carpet.
Material : Mulberry cacoon silk.
Starting knottage
18 x 18 = 324 knots per sq inch (cotton base, rest silk)
20 x 20 = 400 knots per sq inch (100% silk)
24 x 24 = 516 knots per sq inch (100% silk)
30 x 30 = 900 knots per sq inch (100% silk)
35 x 35 = 1225 knots per sq inch (100% silk)
Cottage wool carpet : same as silk carpets knottage from:
9 x 16 = 144, 10 x 18 = 180, 12 x 20 = 240 per Sq. inch
material Kashmir wool, New Zealand wool and cotton for its base.
Tribal Carpet from Central Asia : Created by nomad families living at high mountains professionally shepherd, having moving job, living under tents which they makes themselves out of wool or in muddy houses. Only out of wool, which they are getting from their animals, they are making beautiful rugs, donkey saddle bags and tents.
Spinning wool material by wollen wheel-chair adopting only method, which they had learned from their forefathers. For dyeing getting colors from herbs, shrubs and root plants. Without having any pattern they are putting their inner most feeling in a carpet. In the result we founds mistakes in a rug. As they never follow new methods their carpet becomes uneven. Life of tribal carpets goes in centuries. It has resale value. Old is more costly than the new ones. Material used in a carpet and other things are 100% wool, including base of a carpet is also wool.