How are Indian Carpets handcrafted by weavers at Yak Carpet?

Handmade Indian carpets bring smooth texture, rich colors, sophisticated designs, and great durability to homes. At Yak Carpet, customers can find a variety of handmade carpets to choose from, all carpets are made by professional weavers with great attention to details. They weave it from the stage one to the final stage and it is an artistic work which is rooted to traditional techniques. Yak Carpet brings you a sneak peek into what goes behind the making of each handcrafted carpet.

Designing of the Carpet
Every carpet is thus developed through a design process. Small experts draw detailed contours that represent the cultural Indian experience giving the carpet geometric, floral, as well as abstract shapes and borders. When it is complete the pattern is transferred to graph paper at a scale and each knot is labelled according to its position. From this design, the weavers have a template of how they want the carpet to be made, that way, no detail goes missing.

Preparation of the Loom
When the design is prepared the loom also gets fixed. At Yak Carpet, handknotted carpets are produced using  high-quality loom, most often made of wood or metal. It is from this loom that the carpet is woven and the position of this loom changes depending on the size of the carpet being developed. Preparation of the loom involves a lot of detail since it defines how the finished carpet would look, or even its structural stability.

Selecting and Dyeing the Yarn
Using only the finest quality wool and silk, the carpets are designed. The yarn is by either natural or chemical dyes depending on the colours required for the design. Aids used from nature; such as plants, minerals or insects give a rich and warm color to the yarn while still maintaining its softness as well as sturdiness. After the yarn is dyed, it is spread at a sunny place to dry since this assists to set the colours right and get a rich colouring.

Process of Handknotting
The most time-consuming and individual-ability-sensitive part of the production process is hand-knotting. Each rug is hand-knotted by master weavers at Yak Carpet while they use natural materials to make the carpets. The number density of these knots, normally expressed in knots per square inch (KPSI), plays a major role in determining the carpets’ toughness as well as the fineness of details. As the weavers knot carefully they are very sensitive while working on the design on the template in the columns and rows of appropriate colouring to make patterns. Generally, one carpet can take some time to a whole year, depending on the density of the work done to create the carpet.

Washing and Trimming
Wool fabric after weaving is trimmed in a very sophisticated manner. Artisans trim each tuft with scissors so that they could make the surface even and emphasize the feeling of depth of the design. The carpet is then rinsed through and through with clean water and a drop of natural soap which deepens the colors of the carpet and softens the pile. It also helps to rinse the carpet and get rid of remaining dye so that the carpet doesn’t change its color and texture.

Finishing Touches
When washed the carpet is stretched to give it the right shape and is then dried by the sun. Last but not the least, Yak Carpet’s artisans review the carpets one more time before dispatching them to their consumers. There are straws fastened around the edges and lastly, fringe knots are tied that makes up the final part in carpet manufacturing.

Every Yak Carpet is a piece of love, a piece of India and also a piece of craftsmanship blended with devotion and creativity. These distinctive handmade carpets are not only the floor coverings  and decorative accessories, but they are collections, carefully created with love and an appreciation of culture, serving as an interior allure.

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