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Perusing Our Glossary of Carpet and Area Rug Terms |
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over design |
A repeated pattern that fully covers the field
of a rug. |
| Arbrash
|
A change in the shade of a color within a rug
which usually appears in a horizontal line. |
| Backing/Backing
Material |
To
protect the back of hooked rugs, heavy fabric is secured with
latex glue. |
| Border
|
The
design which forms the outside edge of a rug and surrounds the
field. |
| Braided
Rug |
Yarn or fabric
is braided to form a continuous rope or braid which is sewn in
a spiral to form a reversible rug. |
| Cartoon
|
A colored
drawing on graph paper that a weaver follows to craft a rug design. |
| Carving
|
Hand-held
carving tools are used to accentuate details of hooked, tufted
and handknotted rugs. |
| Chemical
Wash |
Produces
an overall lustre by reacting to the dye stuffs in the design
and by removing short staple yarns from the face of the rug. |
| Chenille
Braid |
Fabric is
first woven, then cut into strips which are braided. |
| Chrome
Dyes |
A quality
feature because these synthetic dyes use potassium bichromate
to form a permanent bond between the dye and the rug’s fiber.
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| Cross-woven
|
This refers
to a rug woven horizontally on a Wilton loom as opposed to vertically,
which is more common. |
| Delustered
|
A fabric
treatment which washes the shine from the yarn, producing a softer
overall appearance in an Oriental rug. |
| Denier
|
In reference
to yarn size, the lower the denier, the smaller the yarn size;
the higher the denier, the larger the yarn size. |
| Density
|
This measure
of quality in a rug is determined by the amount of yarn and the
pile height in a given area of the rug. |
| Dhurrie
|
Called a
flat woven rug, dhurries are usually made of cotton or wool in
India using the warp-sharing, kelim method. |
| Field
|
The part
of a rug’s design surrounded by the border. The field may
be solid or contain medallions, or an overall pattern. |
| Foundation
|
The combination
of warps and wefts in the body of a rug. |
| Hooked
Rug |
Yarns
are pushed through canvas cloth and form a design. |
| Kelim
|
A
tapestry-like flat woven rug. |
| Latex
|
This glue
is used to secure a heavy cloth backing to hooked rugs, and to
secure face yarns. |
| Medallion
|
If
a design has a large enclosed portion, usually in the center,
it is called the medallion. Typical shapes are diamonds, octagons
and hexagons. |
| Pile
|
The surface
of the rug, it is sometimes called the "nap" or "face." |
| Ply
|
One or more
yarns are twisted together to form a larger piece of yarn. Ply
counts the number of individual yarn pieces comprising the whole.
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| Polypropylene
|
A synthetic
fiber that is colorfast, mold and mildew resistant, stain resistant,
with excellent wearability and is easily cleaned. |
| Printed
Rugs |
Solid
or multi-colored pile rugs on which a design has been stenciled.
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| Tufting
|
A
form of hooking, yarns are pushed through the foundation of
a rug to form a pattern with an electric tufting gun. |
| Variegated
|
Using multiple
colors. |
| Vegetable
Dyes |
Natural dyes
produced from berries, roots and bark. They are not as colorfast
as chrome dyes. |
| Warp
|
Forming the
backbone of a rug, warp yarns are attached to a loom and run the
length of a rug. |
| Weft
|
Yarns that
are woven horizonally across the warp of a rug. |
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Worsted |
Before
wool is spun into yarn, it is combed, then worsted to improve
its quality by leaving only longer pieces of fiber for final
spinning.
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