INTRODUCTION TO HANDMADE CARPETS

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History
 Carpet was first developed in central Asia, in Persia.
 Mongol King looted the carpet of Persia.
 Babur missed the luxury of Persia, which included Persian
carpets.
 He brought the weavers of carpet from Persia to India.
 In India, carpet weaving was fully introduced by Akbar in
1580AD.
 Jahangir helped in flourishing the carpet weaving.

Types of Hand knotted carpet

 Persian Carpet
 Turkish Carpet

Persian Carpet
 These carpets are made by Persian knots.
 They are widely made in Iran, central Asia, India, china and
Pakistan.
 Examples of these carpets are kashan, Gabbeh and Isfahan etc.

Turkish carpet
 These carpets are made by Turkish knots.
  They are made in turkey and some area of Iran.
 Examples of these carpets are Mahal, Hamadan and Heriz etc.

PERSIAN /TURKISH DESIGN GRAPH:

Design is described as phrase “form follows functions”. Designs must
have visual appeal. In carpet designing, we use graph for designing
different types of carpet.it is done manually or by CAD.

The graph paper used in designing the Persian/Tibetan denotes

certain aspect of carpet.

Each block in the graph represents single knot. The different color in
the graph denotes the different color dyed yarn used in the carpet
weaving.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF DESIGN GRAPH:

Design graphs are basically of two types:-

A. With central medallion type.

B. Without central medallion type.

A. WITH CENTERAL MEDALLION TYPE:

The central medallion type design graph also known as quarter graph
has centeral medallion around which