Area Rugs Carpet
Area rugs carpet are factory-made or hand-made products. Area rugs carpet can be made of wool, silk, leather, animal skin and more. Usually area rugs carpet are piled. Area rugs carpet are used to cover floors or to decorate walls. At first let’s know about what is the difference between area rugs carpet and gobelins or mats.
Threads of penny rugs’ pile are fastened off with knots. On the contrary to area rugs carpet, a gobelin or a tapestry has no knots, threads are dragged through the base and these threads are nailed down to each other by using special fork. There are two kinds of surfaces in area rugs carpet.
Area rugs carpet are manufactured, using very difficult, accurate technique, with mathematical precision. On the contrary to area rugs carpet, gobelins are weaved quite arbitrary. Apart from area rugs carpet and gobelins there are mats. Mats differ from area rugs carpet in the method of threads interweaving (it is very similar to that in tapestry).
Also mats are manufactured of sisal (dried fibers of agave), but nevertheless, mats are prototypes of area rugs carpet.