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All About Carpets & Rugs
How Rugs are Made Hand-Made Versus Machine-Made Hand-Made Rugs Hand-made rugs have a certain built-in value that ranks them above machine-made products. Hand-made labor is more costly and carries with it a certain expectation of care and quality. Hand-made carpets involve an endless series of choices and decisions, minor twists and turns, that collectively give the piece its personality and presence, something that the finest machine made carpet lacks. For those who can distinguish such qualities, only hand-made carpets will do, and that involves a certain minimal cost level. Hand made rugs, even a small one, can take many months to produce. A room-size carpet may take the same time, but only because it is produced by multiple weavers working in concert. Machine-Made Rugs Since the advent of western industrialization in the nineteenth century, machine loom processes of various types have manufactured rugs. Such rugs are often made from the same materials as hand-made rugs. The wool, silk, and cotton used are often of high quality. The standards of fabrication may also be high. However machine made rugs are mechanical in their execution, and often in their design as well. They are programmatic and contain no surprises, no idiosyncrasies, none of the little bits of magic that add up to make a great hand-made rug. As mass-produced items they are generally less valuable, although some types of machine-made rugs like Wiltons or Karastans do command a high price. |
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