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Monday, 14 August 2006 |
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Natural Dyes
Until the late nineteenth century only natural dyes were used for coloring weaving yarns. Natural dyes include plant dyes, animal dyes, and mineral dyes. Traditional vegetable dyes include woad, a plant of the mustard family, and indigo, a bush from the pea family, both used for blue dye. Yellow is produced from saffron, safflower, sumac, turmeric, onionskin, rhubarb, weld, and fustic. Madder root has been used since ancient times for reds. Browns and blacks come from catechu dye, oak bark, oak galls, acorn husks, tea, and walnut husks. Henna is used for orange. For green, indigo over-dyed with any of a variety of yellow dyes is used. |
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Sunday, 13 August 2006 |
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Origins of Weaving and Hand Knotted Rugs
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The art of rug making reaches back into pre-history. Unfortunately very little is known about the earliest examples of hand knotted rugs. A small number of these have been preserved in museums and private collections, but the sadly the vast majority of older rugs have disappeared. Excavations at the c. 7000 BC site of Catal Huyuk in Anatolia have revealed wall paintings of flat woven rugs, as well as blank spaces on the walls where woven materials would have been hung. The earliest known representation of a loom appears on a terracotta cylinder seal from Sumer (modern Iraq), from the fourth millennium BC. |
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
Oriental Rugs
Oriental rugs are usually woven on upright looms. The weaving methods have not changed in centuries. The warp threads are stretched lengthwise from the top to the bottom pole. The weaver sits on a board beside the loom. To make the silky pile for which these rugs are famous, the weaver loops bits of yarn in knots around the warp threads. A pattern hanging on the warp guides the choice of colored yarns to fill in the design. After a row of knots is tied, the weft yarn is shuttled across the rug, then combed and pressed against the knots to hold them firmly. The knot ends are clipped and stand erect as pile. |
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