A tapestry is a one of a kind woven piece of art, making it the perfect moniker for any place each with their own style and personality. Our collection offers the best of both worlds.
We work with you to develop your ideas, creating a bespoke rug design exclusively tailored to your style and requirements.
We ensure you’ll always feel involved and you can be confident that your ideas will be interpreted into the final design.
It is important to note that there are two differnt types of tapestry; (1) Hand Tufted Rugs and (2) Hand Knotted Rugs.
A hand tufted rug is the practice using a small tufting gun to punch a design into a canvas. The tufting gun is held by the hand of a technician who loads yarn into a magazine and traces a pattern onto a canvas backing. This is done by an unskilled laborer very quickly in a factory.
A hand knotted rug is an ancient art form of hand knotting individual pieces of wool or silk yarn onto a loom to create a wool rug.
How To Tell The Difference: The Fringe
How the fringe looks on a rug is a tell tale sign of how the rug was constructed.
Hand Knotted Rug
The fringe of a hand knotted rug is key to the construction of the rug. The wool yarn is hand knotted onto the fringe and the pieces at the end are left for decoration. But, the fringe is key to holding the rug together. If the fringe is not there, the rug will unravel and you will have nothing but a pile of yarn.
Hand Tufted Rug
On a tufted rug, the fringe will be sewn or glued on the the back. Makers of hand tufted rugs are glued or sewn on a fringe to make the rug appear authentic. This makes it easy to tell the difference. Flip the rug over andsee if you can see stitch marks OR a strip of canvas that the fringe is attached to.
Hand Knotted Rug: The back of a hand knotted rug will be an exact mirror image of the top pile of the rug. You will be able to see each individual knot and be able to count the knots per square inch.
Hand Tufted Rug: The back of a hand tufted rug will have have a canvas back the is glued to hold the rug together. Because the rug is not knotted, You will not see or be able to count a knot count.