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How Rugs are Made
Three main material used in rugs -sheep wool, natural silk and cotton. The nomadic rugs is also mals and goat wool.
The majority of handmade rugs and units, respectively, nap-of fleece. It is soft, resilient, relatively low in price in comparison with silk, which, it is convenient to work with. This set of sheep wool makes a unique material for the manufacture of Oriental carpets. Adding to the yarn or Lepus goat wool carpet, but try not to overdo it : Lepus, and goat wool is colored quite poorly.
 Typically, the highest quality of wool is sheep grazing in the highland pastures. Valued wool from the highlands of Iran and the Caucasus. Excellent woo can be located in China, Australia and New Zealand as well.
Silk, most precious of natural fibers and used in the rug to be sharper than fur. Silk is the thread from which Suites silkworm cocoon silk, insect feeding mulberry tree leaves (mulberry). Homeland silk is in China. Today the silkworm is shipped to Iran, Turkey, India and some republics of the former USSR. The quality silks are in China, as well as in Iran in the areas adjacent to the southern shore of the Caspian Sea.
Cotton is generally used as a basis for the rug (although in a silk carpets and often made of silk). Nodules of cotton are not tied. The exceptions are some tribal region, where cotton is used to underscore the contrast with the image of small piece.
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