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    Notes on Carpet-Knotting and Weaving
    Notes on Carpet-Knotting and Weaving
    Notes on Carpet-Knotting and Weaving
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    Notes on Carpet-Knotting and Weaving

    By C. E. C. Tattersall

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473358737
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      Notes on Carpet-Knotting and Weaving - C. E. C. Tattersall

      NOTES ON CARPET-KNOTTING AND WEAVING

      IT IS NOT EASY to give a precise definition of what is meant by a carpet, because neither the technique nor the use supplies a sufficient criterion. On the one hand, the tapestry method of weaving, of which use is so often made in pictorial wall-hangings, is also employed for undoubted carpets; and, on the other hand, typical carpet-weavings are found as hangings and furniture coverings where different fabrics would rather be expected.

      Perhaps the simpler plan is to regard carpets as floor-coverings woven in the usual textile materials (thus excluding mattings, linoleums, and the like), and to group with them fabrics of similar technique and design even if used as wall-hangings, furniture-coverings, saddle-bags, or in other ways.

      In order that carpets may efficiently answer the purposes for which they are required, they must be substantial fabrics specially adapted to resist hard wear. They must be strong enough to withstand the stresses which handling and moving about causes in a heavy object, as well as the continual pressure and friction to which the surface is subjected when in use.

      From the point of view of technique, carpets may be divided into the two great classes of pile and smooth-faced, the former being by far the more important.

      PILE CARPETS—In a pile fabric there is a foundation consisting of two sets of threads—the warp and the weft—interlacing at right angles, which foundation in itself constitutes a coherent fabric; and in addition there are inserted extra threads, usually with cut ends, more or less perpendicular to the plane of the fabric. It is the function of these threads, collectively called the pile, to take the wear due to various abrading forces; and obviously, so long as any of the pile remains, mechanical wear can have very little destructive action on the foundation beneath.

      There is no doubt that pile fabrics are those best suited to the conditions under which carpets are used; and it is truly extraordinary how long a good pile carpet will last, and what an amount of wear it will stand before actually falling to pieces.

      There are two distinct ways in which the pile may be added to the foundation, though the final result is not always essentially different.

      In the first method, short pieces of thread are tied to the foundation in such a manner that their free ends, packed close together, stand more or less upright and form the pile. The knotting may be done—and in the case of small home-made rugs often is done—on an already finished fabric like coarse canvas; but it is more usual, and preferable by far, to tie the knots gradually, a line at a time, while the foundation itself is being woven. This method of knotting requires only the simplest apparatus, is easily performed by hand—more easily, in fact, than by machinery—and gives the best possible results. It is employed in a large majority of Oriental carpets, and is of such outstanding importance that its description will occupy the greater part of these pages.

      In the second method, extra warp-threads, several times longer than the foundation warp, are woven into the fabric in such a way as to form a series of upstanding loops which constitute the pile

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