| Specifications︰ | Kashmiri carpets are world renowned for two things- they are hand made and they are always knotted, never tufted.
Stretched tightly on a frame is the warp of Carpet. The weft threads are passed through, the ¡¥talim¡¦ or design and color specifications are then worked out on this: a strand of yarn is looped through the warp & weft, knotted and then cut. The yarn used normally is silk, wool or silk and wool. Woolen carpets always have a cotton base (Warp & Weft), silk usually have cotton base. Sometimes however, the base is also silk in which case you will see that the fringe is silk; the cost increases proportionately. Occasionally, carpets are made on a cotton base, mainly of woolen pile with silk yarn used as highlights on certain motifs.
Kashmiri carpets are woven in many designs.Most designs are distinctly Persian with local variations.
The colors of Kashmiri carpets are more subtle and muted than elsewhere in the country, only chemical dyes are used-vegetable dyes have not been available now for hundred years.
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