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Area Rugs - Genuine Tibetan Rugs |
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Genuine Tibetan RugsTall snow-covered mountains generally come to mind at the mention of anything Tibetan. However, the country also produces rugs, and Tibetan rugs are made of tough Tibetan style wool that truly increases in loveliness, as it grows old. Rug making is a very old art and craft of the Tibetan people. The method of manufacturing an area rug is distinctive in that more or less everything is done by hand. Accomplished spinners create a style of hand-spun fibers with an irregular makeup and an outstanding quality. Rugs available on the market in the early 1970s more often than not arrived through Nepal, where refugees had transported them subsequent to the Chinese containment of Tibetan unrest in 1959. Important new rug collections are being accumulated, and the focus of these collections takes many paths. Tibetan area rugs appear to be separated into city and country styles, with rural rugs bearing a comparable connection to their urban cousins as the rural rugs of Persia do to city products. Rugs of TibetThe Tibetan style occupies a modest place in the pecking order of Oriental rugs. The Tibetan people had a distinctive style of producing natural dyes, which provided occasional striking success and frequent failures. Chemical dyestuffs were brought in on the Tibetan highland at a comparatively early date and were eagerly employed by those who had access to them. Tibet was producing area rugs early in rug-making history. In spite of the incursion of machinery and new weaving methods, the finest Tibetan area rugs are prepared by time-honored techniques, completely hand-spun yarn and natural dyes. The rugs feature deep, thick pile and profound colors. Two traditional Tibetan designs are the flayed tiger on a cream background, and a basic and angular large flower design. About The Author: |
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