When you are looking for something special to put on your hardwood or tile floor, you will probably think of using an Oriental weavers rug. But how do you know the difference between an Oriental weavers rug and one that is just pretty to look at? Here are a few things to keep in mind while shopping for your new Oriental area rug.
One thing that is very common to find when shopping is to have several styles of patterned rugs lumped into the general heading of Oriental weavers rug. Often, even some rug retailers will sell a mix of both machine and hand made rugs under the very same title or brand. In fact, only hand knotted rugs are true Oriental weavers rugs, but this is often not made known by the sales force in the retailer or on their website.
Oriental rugs are a pile or a flat woven fabric that has been hand-knotted in the Middle or Far East. Only rugs from Afghanistan, China, India, Nepal, Iran, Tibet, Turkey and Pakistan are considered genuine oriental rugs along with some of the old Soviet Union territories, Egypt and North African countries as well as Romania and Albania. If you are being sold a rug as genuine and it was made in Belgium, South America, Western Europe or the United States, then that sales person either doesn’t know what he is talking about or is hoping you don’t know better. The same is true if the rug is made on a machine or is constructed of nylon or polypropylene.
Now, just because you have found a patterned rug that has been made in one of the countries listed above, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is a authentic Oriental weavers rug. You can have a hand made rug that is not actually hand knotted. For example, hand tufted rugs are easily mistaken for hand knotted rugs.
If you are unsure if the rug you are considering taking home is actually hand knotted or hand tufted, there are two ways you can know for sure. One is to look at the back of the rug itself. The fringe that will be on both pieces will most likely give you the answer you are searching for. If the fringe is sewn on, it is not a genuine Oriental rug.
But genuine Oriental rugs fringe actually comes directly from the material being on the loom instead of it being sewn on afterwards. The other way to be sure you are getting a genuine Oriental weavers rug is to look at the price tag. A hand knotted rug will cost roughly twice as much as a hand tufted rug.
If you are going to take the plunge and invest several hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in an Oriental area rug, then be sure you know your facts before you go shopping. Just make sure you don’t end up paying a premium price but get a non-genuine premium Oriental weavers rug.
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