How Are Rugs Made?

-A trip to a rug factory

There are many steps involved in creating a hand made rug.
First the design is drawn by hand...

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Mr. Zhou is a rug designer with fifteen years of experience. First he draws each design freehand.

 

 

 

Ms. Yan then transfers the design to a knot-for-knot graph or "cartoon"
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Mr. Meng takes the finished design and inputs the data on his computer. Each knot is color-coded so we can try other colors and even calculate how much wool to dye that color.

 


 

 

 

 

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