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Rug and Kilim weaving Women continue to be the weavers and in many villages carpet weaving has social, practical and economic dimensions. Daughters are taught to weave from a very early age in hopes that this will make them more marriageable. The Kiz carpets refer to carpets made in homes or villages by young women of marriageable age for their grooms. It is interesting to note that only women weave carpets and kilims, while men repair them. Male carpet weavers are not accepted in Turkish culture. Our group visited a carpet repair factory, a "rug hospital". While the majority of employees are men, there are also a few women who work there. Women usually spin the wool during idle moments and street while spinning. In hand - spun wool, the original length of the fiber stays the same through the spinning process - a fiber that measured 7 cm. before spinning. Will still measure the same after spinning. Wool can also industrially spun, but the hard twisting of the fibers by the spinning machines tends to break some of the fibers. Although the broken bits and shorter fibers can be made to adhere together through the use of oils during the spinning process, the fiber will have lost some of its strength, which, in turn, will shorten the life spun of the rugs to be woven. In rug and kilim weaving, cotton is used mostly for the warp threads, as well as for the wefts. Compared to wool, cotton is generally considered to be a more resident fiber and it is less elastic. So, tighter knots can be tied on cotton warps as opposed to wool. If very tight knot is tied to a wool warp, the fiber will break much more frequently than if the warps were of cotton. Consequently, woolen pile rugs with high knotting density counts will normally have cotton warps, for example, in Hereke, Ladik, and Kayseri Bunyan carpets. Producers Textiles and Rugs Choose a country. Copyright 2002-2003 © Rug's Loom and Techniques LTD. |
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