India produces thick,heavy, very good quality rugs today .
The finishing is, generally, quite good and the cotton foundation threads are thick and tightly plied togheter. Indian wool is good and sometimes it is mixed with New Zealand wool to produce a better quality and a softer nap.
The western importer has encouraged the Indian producers to soften the colors and harmonize them for the western market. This has been the most revolutionary development in oriental carpets in the last twenty years.
The Indian style is a beatiful more rectilinear interpretation of old curvilinear, heavily ornamented, full field designs from Iran.
Indian designs are delicate, angular or geometric, with a good deal of space surrounding the motifs.
The greater space enhances the designs and adds elegante to the carpets.
Many indian rugs are made with vegetal-dyes from natural sources such as madder and indigo roots, nut husks and tree bark.
The finishing is, generally, quite good and the cotton foundation threads are thick and tightly plied togheter. Indian wool is good and sometimes it is mixed with New Zealand wool to produce a better quality and a softer nap.
The western importer has encouraged the Indian producers to soften the colors and harmonize them for the western market. This has been the most revolutionary development in oriental carpets in the last twenty years.
The Indian style is a beatiful more rectilinear interpretation of old curvilinear, heavily ornamented, full field designs from Iran.
Indian designs are delicate, angular or geometric, with a good deal of space surrounding the motifs.
The greater space enhances the designs and adds elegante to the carpets.
Many indian rugs are made with vegetal-dyes from natural sources such as madder and indigo roots, nut husks and tree bark.
