For these wonderful carpets, in a painstakingly time-consuming process, Tibetan wool is handspun and then hand knotted on a cotton warp creating exceptionally soft and beautiful carpets.
Oriental rugs differ from all other rugs in one important part, their pile.
The pile we walk on is tied to the rug's foundation, rather than being glued to it or passed through the foundation, as is the case with machine made rugs. This may explain why Oriental rugs last much longer, their pile endures until the rug's foundation is worn through. An Oriental rug is the aggregate of the knots tied in it, for its pile is constituted of the two ends of each knot. The technique of knotting rugs is at least three thousand years old. Handspun and machine-spun wool have different properties that affect how a rug looks.