Construction

Starting with the ancient Pazyryk Carpet found buried in a frozen Siberian burial mound some 2500 years ago, the method of creating a hand-knotted rug has changed little over time. The true art of a hand-knotted rug is in the way it’s constructed, as it is by far the most difficult method used in the creation of handmade rugs. Without the aid of glues or machinery, a hand-knotted rug is painstakingly created by a weaver following a design, knotting tufts of yarn to warp threads and cutting them one at a time by hand. Once a row of knots is completed one or more wefts are interwoven between every other warp. They are then beaten down using a metal or wooden comb to lock them in place and after the knotting is complete, the warp ends (fringes) are then tied off to prevent the rug from unraveling.

A hand-knotted rug may have anywhere between 25 to over 1000 knots per square inch and as a skilled weaver is generally able to tie around 300 knots per hour, a group of weavers, each of whom working on three foot sections at a time, may take up to a year or more to complete a single rug depending on its size, the number of knots per square inch and the intricacy of the rug’s design. All things being equal, the more knots per square inch a carpet has the more valuable it is.

Please refer to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pOLpyUHeeM or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5htkOPc3vI