Hand knotted vs Hand-tufted

Hand-knotted rugs (left) are higher quality and crafted using techniques different from hand-tufted (right) rugs. While hand-tufted are handmade they are not hand-knotted.

Hand-knotted Rugs.

Weavers use their hands to weave hand-knotted rugs on a designed loom. The loom has vertical threads or warp tied onto it which becomes the rug’s fringe.

The weft runs horizontally and it intertwines with vertical threads to form the rug’s foundation. To secure knots, each knot is tied to warp thread and cut before being tied again. Experienced weavers take two seconds to tie every knot.

Hand-tufted Rugs.

A tufting tool is used to punch yarn into the fabric baking and hide glue that holds a hand-tufted rug together.

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The process of making a tufted rug entails stretching a stenciled canvas behind to make punching or tracing the design into the rug possible. The process is made faster by a tufting gun. Some skills are required to make a tufted rug.

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