Kashmir Carpets

Kashmir is most famous for its carpets, long production techniques are imported from Persia. Other items in Kashmir orginating products include paper mache, leather boots and shoes, and ornately carved furniture, including screens and hand-knotted wool rug tables.There several production centers in India, but the traditional hand-knotted silk carpets in Kashmir in India. The origin of the traditional silk carpets of Kashmir can be traced back to the Mughal period


Pure silk hand-knotted carpets and built a worldwide reputation for softness. These carpets are very expensive because of labor-intensive and takes more than a year to perfect the silk carpet. The process of creating a long hand-knotted silk carpets, and many preparations must be made before a master, weaving carpets. Determines the yarns used to create the type of carpet. Wool carpets are still up in the cotton yarn. Silk is sometimes used in wool, some of the submitted projects and patterns.


On the other hand, carpets silk carpets are those which are created silk pile. Silk or cotton wool pile rugs. Overall, silk carpets are made up of 80% silk 20% cotton fiber and yarn. These carpets are more than 400 knots per square inch. 100% pure silk carpets are very high knotage per inch. The knots per square inch of this rug 400-1600 knots per square inch may vary. This high rate of life insurance knottage and stability of the carpet.