The
flat-woven runners can even be taken up and dry cleaned.
In an attempt to improve tent beds made from stacks of leaves and to fold and carry sleeping mats on horseback easily, nomads started imitating animal pelts by adding pile to basic
flat-woven articles: the first knotted pile carpets thus appeared.
(That distinctive "newcarpet" aroma is the odor of 4-PC offgassing.) Find a manufacturer that uses untreated rubber or latex, or avoid the hassle altogether by choosing a backing-free,
flat-woven dhurrie or kilim.
The Azerbaijan Carpet Museum invites you to the lecture "
Flat-Woven Carpets" on January 12.
"Twelve or 15 years ago, you were looking at a market dominated by traditional patterns, and they were plain and flat," he said, noting the popularity then of
flat-woven rugs such as kilims, durries and soumaks.
According to their technical aspects, Azerbaijani carpets are classified as
flat-woven (pileless) and knotted (pile).
Also new at Miresco is the Nomad Collection, a hand-knotted Oushak collection,
flat-woven of 100 percent New Zealand wool.
Among those introductions is the machine-made Conservatory Collection of traditional rugs that incorporates subtle, antique shading to enhance the designs; plush, hand-tufted solids of wool and faux silk in the Steppe Collection, which uses hand-carving for added texture; and a hand-knotted technique that combines a
flat-woven, Kelim-style field with a closely shorn pile border in a variety of colors in the Ogedei Collection.
/ Concord Global Trading's new Aubusson design was inspired by a
flat-woven antique.
Balta also adds to its popular
flat-woven collections: Natura and Kerala.
Capel is also adding to its licensed Colonial Williamsburg collection and will show new additions to
flat-woven, hand-knotted, hand-tufted and loop-hooked categories.