What is Nain wool?
The wool used in Nain rugs, known as kork wool, is usually finer than the standard Persian wool. Like high end Isfahan rugs, it is possible to find some Nains woven with silk, rather than cotton foundations. Most Nain rugs will almost certainly have ivory silk outlining design motifs, such as flowers and birds.
What is Nain silk?
Nain carpets often have a higher knot density than one million knots per square metre. The material in the more exclusive carpets consists of wool on a silk warp or silk in the warp as well as in the weft and pile. Patterns with a medallion in the middle together with arabesques and floral motifs are common.
What are Persian Nain rugs?
Nain rugs are constructed using the Persian knot and typically have between 300 and 700 knots per square inch. The pile is usually very high quality wool, clipped short, and silk is often used as highlighting for detail in the design.
How can you tell a Sarouk rug?
The painted ‘American Sarouk’ rugs can be easily identified by comparing the field color on the back and the front. If the carpet is a light rose on the back and a dark rose or close color on the front, it is probably a painted American Sarouk.
What are Kashan carpets?
A Kashan rugs’ foundations are usually cotton, though their older pieces are made from pure silk. The body frame is crafted with wool that sometimes has silk mixed within. The finished texture of Kashan rugs is normally tight, yet soft to the touch.
What is the difference between a Persian rug and an Oriental rug?
Oriental rugs are composed of rugs made all over Asia, including India, China, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey and more. Persian rugs are specifically made in Persia, or modern day Iran. Just like Turkish rugs are made in Turkey.
Why are Persian rugs so valuable?
The finest of these carpets can take months, and even years to be made. Finer yarns like silk and cotton yields light-weight and intricate designs and takes much longer to weave compared to wool yarns. Hence, the prices of the rugs made from finer yarns are higher than the ones made completely of wool.
Where are Sarouk rugs made?
Iran
A Sarouk rug is a type of Persian rug from Markazi Province in Iran. Sarouk (also Saruk or Sarough) rugs are those woven in the village of Saruk and also the city of Arak and the surrounding countryside.
What is an American Sarouk rug?
The American Sarouk is a double-wefted rug meaning it is woven with two side to side or weft cords (which are cotton and usually dyed blue).
What makes Habibian Nain carpets so special?
Fatollah and Mohammad began making very fine rugs, often out of pure silk. His craftsmanship and artistic vision almost singlehandedly shaped the face of Nain carpets as we know them today. Always incorporating beautiful colours and intricate designs, a Habibian Nain is always an incredible example of exemplary carpet making.
Where are Nain rugs made?
View all our fine Nain rugs. Nain is a town 150km to the east of Isfahan in central Iran; it is relatively new to the carpet world compared to ancient weaving centres such as Kashan, Isfahan and Yazd. Although it started out producing Isfahan carpets, in the mid 1930s Nain began developing its own style.
Who is the father of Nain rugs?
Fatollah Habibian is known as the “Father of Nain Rugs.” He was born in 1903 in the city of Nain. He knotted his first carpet as a school boy. He left Nain in his teenage years to become an apprentice at a carpet making workshop. He returned to Nain and opened, along with his brother Mohammad, their own workshop in 1920.
