subject: Rugs: Hand Made Or Machine Made [print this page] Rugs during the early times are genuinely handmade. With their bare hands ancient people would spend most of their time weaving and knotting. They have the gift of time thus they can do this technique whole day whole night without running after rush hours. Life before was indeed simple and basic. Women are bound to stay at home with their children and do the household chores and weave clothes and rugs for their personal use and for their royalties as well while the men go out a warrior or slave. Their lives were harsh yet simple compared to the busy lives of every individual today, there will be no time for weaving.
With our technology inflating every now and then, it is but normal that a machine has been invented to replace human hands from weaving although it has good results but it could never be as good as the once made on sweat. But what can we do, with the high demand of such good making it with bare hands would take us a lifetime to wait. Almost everything in this time is fast forward and fast changing and we have to adhere to that. But then handmade rugs still exist in some local areas and they have been passing this on from generation to generation.
However, there are some tips on how we can identify handmade rugs from those made out of a machine. First thing to be noticed is the synthetic fibers included in the materials being used in the product because if it is handmade there will be no room for synthetic fibers because it will all be natural. Often time rugs that came from Western Europe are said to be machine made. One reason for this is they don't have locals who does the weaving and resources aren't readily available.
Another thing to discover is the tag identifier, when the pattern, style and color are found in those tags then no doubt that rug is made out of a machine. Next would be its color, of course handmade rugs often has brighter and darker colors to show than those handmade rugs. And the most final criteria on comparing handmade and machine made rugs is through its stitches and knots from all angles of the rug. When it is machine made, often times it is overstitched and it knots would not appear at the back of the rug while handmade rugs shows knots at the back and stitches overcast on the edges.
End point of this, it is nice to know how a handmade rug differs from a machine made rug. It indeed showed a lot of differences and we can't deny the fact that handmade rugs are often better than the machine made rugs but what's important is we choose the right rug, at the right cost and for the right purpose. For as long as you know that you are not wasting your money on something that you do not really need and want.
