Hand-Knotted:
As the name suggests, a Hand-Knotted rug gets made of hundreds of thousands of tiny knots. Exceptionally skilled weavers weave each knot painstakingly by hand. Hand Knotting is a highly specialized and labor-intensive skill, and these rugs take about six weeks to weave for an average size of 8ft x 10ft, for example, with two weavers working side by side. Just to give an idea, a size 8x10 rug in 60 knots quality will be hand-made of approximately 700,000 knots. Genuinely fascinating, isn't it?
Hand-Tufted:
A rug of this quality is made pretty much like embroidery, where the weaver stretches a cloth across a metallic frame. The design is printed onto the cloth by hand, and then the tufts / Pile is inserted into the stretched cloth with a handheld gun. This weaving process is much faster, and a size 8ft x10 ft rug, for example, can be woven in a couple of weeks by a single weaver.
Please 1st choose your rug color, 2nd your rug shape, 3rd your rug size, and 4th your rug pile type with height or density:
This is the fourth and last choice to make and the most critical one, therefore, please choose exactly the type of PILE you truly want.
Check Off either HT Hand Tufted PH Pile Height or HK Hand Knotted PD Pile Density;
and then Check Off the actual PILE Dimension - there are 3 choices for each of the above - Standard, Premium and Luxury.
Please note that once ordered and in fabrication, it will be difficult to switch your order from a hand tufted rug type to a hand knotted rug type and their 3 height and/or density choices since these are hand made with different techniques, processes and equipment and the PILES are also of different textures.
Plus be mindful that the pure natural wool material was sheared off from a New Zealand Sheep, shipped to India to further be washed, spun, made into yarn and dyed in many different colors. So much sustainable and centuries of crafty talented traditions, work and preparation to create the pure and natural materials prior to weaving and fabricating a creative masterpiece, an heirloom for your home.