Knots Per Square Inch Silk Rugs

The second figure is the number of knots in 4 1 2 inches of the rugs length north to south.

Knots per square inch silk rugs.

Like this wool and silk hand knotted rug. A skillful weaver is able to tie a knot in about ten seconds meaning 6 knots per minute or 360 knots per hour. Of course besides the knots benchmark that is largely. Different varieties of oriental rugs use different types of knotting techniques as well as different knots per square inch which ultimately determine the quality of the finished product.

This term refers to the number of knots that are packed into an area of 1 sq. Two numbers are used as such. Wool and silk when an area rug is woven with the used of both wool and silk usually the bulk of the rug is wool and silk is woven into the intricate design to create a sheen. This is the conversion chart to knots per square inch kpsi.

A typical persian or oriental rug made in wool might have between 100 and 300 knots per square inch a typical 100 silk rug on the other hand would have between 300 and 600 kpsi. A rug can consist of 25 to over 1 000 knots per square inch. Every single knot is tied by hand. A 12x12 rug would have 144 kpsi.

This is typically measured by counting the knots on the back of a rug across a vertical and horizontal inch and multiplying the two numbers. Meaning at least 3 4 times the price. Multiply the number of knots in each direction with each other and then multiply the result with 100. That means it would take a skillful weaver 6 480 hours to weave a 9 12 foot rug with a density of 150 knots per square inch.

A hand knotted rug takes time to weave an average weaver can weave about 10 000 knots in an eight hour day. It is obtained by counting the knots on the backside of the carpet 10 cm in the direction of the warp and 10 cm in the direction of the weft. The knot density is the number of knots per square metre. Inch of the rug.

The first number is the number of knots in 9 10 of an inch of the rugs width east to west. More knots compressed into a square inch not just increase the intricacy and clarity of the design it increases the durability of the rug as the knots are closely packed. To accommodate for more knots finer material may also be used like silk or thinner yarn which increase the quality of the rug by the material used to create it. As a result weaving the rug will require 3 4 times the amount of work which becomes more skilled the more intricate the pattern.

Our selection of unparalleled pure kashmir silk carpets rugs has a range of 972000 up to 1586000 knots per square meter and are hence unequalled in terms of durability and resilience and are thus known to have inimitable designs and rare motifs in a glittering assortment of colors. Quality kpsi knots per square inch 3 5 32 28.