If you get 10 knots up and 10 across, the rug has 100 knots per square inch (kpi), and 14,400 per square foot (100x144 square inches). “You can tell how rich a person is by how thin their rugs are.” Put a ruler on the backside of a hand-knotted rug and count the number of stitches per inch each way. “In the Middle East there’s a saying,” Mann said. The more knots a rug has per inch, the finer the rug, the more time it takes to weave and the higher the value. While we average consumers can’t always know a rug’s provenance like Mann and some Uber drivers can, here’s what we can consider when assessing a rug: The value comes from your appreciation and enjoyment of it.” ![]() “You don’t buy an oriental rug as an investment,” Mann said. I do care that these are beautifully handcrafted pieces of a dwindling artform that dates to 400 BC, and that they add warmth, color and, yes, soul, to my home. Regardless, that wouldn’t change my feelings toward them. The other two rugs, Mann said, were made in India, including the entryway rug, as the Uber drive had said, in the Mamluk tradition.īy this point, Mann could have told me that Santa’s elves wove these rugs during their offseason in the North Pole. Likely made in Afghanistan, they harken back to the days after Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979, driving its citizens to Pakistan, where they plied their craft. Two are what he called Af-Pak refugee rugs. I sent him pictures of four rugs I thought were Turkish. As a result, Turkey became full of rugs that weren’t Turkish.”Īnd that is how – though Turkey still makes some rugs – its rug dealers sell rugs made elsewhere. “Around that time, the country lifted its ban on importing foreign handwoven rugs, he said. (Can you blame them?) Production plummeted. But as the country got richer around 1990, fewer women wanted to spend their days weaving. ![]() ![]() Yes, he explained, Turkey was once a major producer of rugs.
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