As we all know, handmade silk carpet especially Persian carpet is the mainly goods of the Silk Road., and also the unique art of world, well, do you want to know how does such a wonderful handmade silk carpet be made?
1.Choose the best material silk from silkworm cocoon.
Firstly, taking silk out of silkworm. Then, immersed cocoon in boiled water for about 20 minuts, hand-drawn silk from the cocoon constantly, then winding it on the silk basket.
2.Dye and dry silk yarn
3.Draw on the paper before weave.
Handmade silk carpet pattern mainly contain Chinese pattern and Persian pattern. Deaigners design and draw the pattern, and then transformed the patterns into drawing that hand woven carpet technician can understand, they enlarged the drawing according to the size of the carpet, made blueprints, each box with a different symbol logo, it represents different colors of yarn, weavers will follow the blueprint to weave the carpet
4.Knitting
When beginning to weave a new carpet, weavers will weave a few centimeters smooth strip that seems like canvas, then follow the blueprints, knot with different colors of yarn on the warp. Then cut the silk yarn with a knife. When finish the first row, tightening the yarn, the wrap forming a cross compacted the silk yarn with a special iron comb after you thread a weft silk, in this way, one row finished carpet weaving is from the point to the line by line to the surface, exquisite carpet will take shape little by little.
5.Washed and dryed
After finished weave, the carpets should be washed and then dryed. After washing place the carpet in ventilated plzce to dry it naturally.
Washing carpet
Drying carpet
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