Incredible India

The red rug to the left is an Indian style rug.

            A couple of days ago, my family and I went to a carpet shop. At the carpet shop the salesman/owner gave us a free tour in hope of us buying something, which I think is going to happen.

             Mommy and daddy seemed interested in buying a rug when we get back home. They even asked for the salesman’s card and the price was really good for a 10 by 12 rug and that includes shipping to your door step. Mommy said that was cheap for a nice rug like the ones he showed us.  The catch is that we need a house to put the rug in first.  Sadly, we don’t have a house right now   

The weavers use the figure eight knot.

              At the carpet shop, there were two professionals working on one carpet together. They were hand knotting the carpet and they used the figure eight knot on two layers of string going vertical. The weavers were weaving super-fast and they looked like someone had pressed the fast forward button. I learned that theft and weft in Hindi is tum and bum. Then, the guy who was telling us all this stuff took us into a different room where they keep all the finished rugs.

            There was a great many finished rugs and the salesman person showed us some Persian style rugs and some Indian rugs. The Persian rugs had much more flowers in the designs than the Indian rugs.  The sales man said that the flowers on the Persian rugs didn’t really grow and the rugs were supposed to be like a paradise thing with huge flower gardens. The Indian rugs had real types of flowers on their rugs because flowers grow in India. I liked the Red Indian rugs more because it wasn’t as busy and the Persian rugs just don’t look right to me. 

            I’m glad we did the carpet/rug tour because now not only do I know where some of the wool from NZ goes to India to be dyed and made into beautiful rugs, but I know how they make the beautiful rugs.