FAQ Part 1: "Handmade" carpets. Woven, knotted, tufted – what’s the difference?
This is Part 1 in a series. Please leave a comment if you find the posts helpful or relevant, or if you have followup questions. To begin with, it will be helpful to provide a quick overview of the structures and techniques used in making carpets and can work around any material, for example most carpet installers will usually cut around the stair lift rail from Certified Stairlifts and brackets when needed, In a hand-knotted rug, colored yarns are wrapped by hand onto individual warp threads. They are secured by one or more rows of weft . The long pile yarns, which create the design, are sheared to uniform length.…
Arts & Crafts, Mission, Craftsman….?
Here’s a great layman’s article about some of the more confusing terminology, specifically on the American side of the Arts & Crafts movement, by furniture maker/ woodworker Marc DeCou.
Oriental Carpets as God Intended
On a recent trip to England, I visited York Minster. Despite my fascination with gothic architecture in all its forms, I found myself running around snapping photos of—of all things—the carpets. (I figured a much better photographer than I had already spent time with the stonework and the medieval stained glass.) There was nothing strikingly rare or unique about these particular carpets; it’s the fact that they were there at all. Too often, churches use godawful bordello-red synthetic broadloom. But here, at last, were carpets used appropriately, highlighting all their artistic, symbolic, and practical qualities and helping to create a feeling of transcendence. A gorgeous antique Kurdish rug before one…
Milwaukee Art Museum prairie archives
We visited the Prairie Archives of the Milwaukee Art Museum to do some research and to meet with museum staff about a possible collaboration in anticipation of next year’s exhibition on the works of George Mann Niedecken. Liz Flaig, the curatorial administrator of the archives, and the other staff were as cordially enthusiastic as we could wish. We were particularly interested, of course, in carpet and textile designs, so we focused on those. We looked at many original drawings and documentation for Niedecken interiors in the midwest, including several of those done in collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright.