Process of Weaving

The following steps should be considered in process of weaving:

1. Providing row materials such as warps (Chelleh), weft (Pood) and woolen(Khameh) strings.
2. Preparing frame (Daar) and tools.
3. Choosing the design of carpet.
4. Installation of warps on the frame.
5. Weaving the coarse part (Killim) at the beginning of carpet.
6. Plain weaving (Sadeh bafi) which means to tying the woolen strings on the warps.
7. Design reading; tying the strings according to colored pixels in the design.
8. Installation of weft (under weft or thick weft and over weft or thin weft) and pounding the weft.
9. Spinning headband of sides (Shirazeh pichi).
10. Pounding the rows and cutting the extra heads of piles (Porz).
11. Paying attention to prevent any possible damage.
12. To bring down, to finalize the carpet weaving process.

Generally there are two kinds of knot in carpet weaving in Iran.

• Turkish knot (Gheyurd or Motegharen) used by Turkish speakers in Tabriz, Heris, Hamedan and Ghashghaei immigrant tribes, etc.
• Persian knot (Saneh & Namotegharen) used Farsi speakers in Arak, Isfahan, Mashhad, Birjand, Kerman, Naein, Kashan, and Qom.

Row Number (Raj Shomar) : Common row numbers in Iranian style are 20-90 averagely. Usually the coarse woven carpets have a row number of 20-25 and tribal coarse woven carpets have a number of 30. Numbers of 40-45&50 make average to good carpets and above that make excellent carpets.

Please note that the density and fineness of knots in a carpet represents the quality of the carpet. It means the more the number of knots in a given area the higher the quality of carpet.