Scissors work and defiance of handmade carpets

Scissors and rebellious handmade carpets are one of the most important parts of the art of carpet weaving that a weaver needs to learn and do properly. In fact, it can be said that these two parts of carpet weaving play the role of carpet showcase and in a way create a beautiful effect on the carpet.

In this article, we intend to go to Farahan Carpet, after a specialized introduction of scissors and rebellion of handmade carpets, to learn how to do these things correctly.

What is carpet defiance?

When a carpet weaver starts weaving handmade carpets, it is necessary to perform a series of actions and steps one after the other in order to finally be able to create a carpet.

When a carpet weaver starts weaving the knots and then weaves, he goes to a stage called carpet weaving.

Rebellion is actually pulling the villi forward, which makes the extra part of the villi to be picked up, and in fact, by defying the handmade rug, you try to get the villi in order so that the end result of your work is smooth and Be integrated and make the patterns more visible.

How to inspect a handmade rug

The method of doing carpet weaving is done in two main ways, some people use the manual method by holding the knot between your thumb and forefinger and pulling it forward and down so that the knots are tight. Become wet. You do this for all nodes.

The second method that is used in many other regions of Iran for weaving handmade carpets is the use of carpet sawing tools. This inexpensive tool works in such a way that by pulling it on the villi, their additions are taken and also by passing the saw teeth through the knots, it makes them somewhat orderly.

What are carpet scissors?

As we said, in carpet weaving, the steps are done step by step, and after completing each step, we go to the next step. .

In general, the issue that hand-woven carpet weavers should pay attention to when weaving the carpet is the density of the lint. In fact, a weaver is not allowed to change the number and size of knots he uses for weaving according to his personal taste. Give.

You have a series of principles and restrictions for carpet weaving that you are required to observe, and not doing them has caused the quality and price of your woven carpet to decrease significantly.

Density is also one of these things that should be said in terms of definition; The weight of floss yarns per square meter in millimeters is called height in terms of density, which is between 75 and 125 grams, and their standard and common amount is 100.

To understand this, you need to weave a rug that weighs the size of the rug. When the volume of your carpet is high, you are able to slightly reduce the height of your piles and knots, because your density is important, and conversely, when the volume decreases slightly, the height and diameter of your piles need to be increased.

We have explained all these materials to get to the point that handmade carpet scissors are not a simple and easy task and you need to learn the necessary principles to do it.

How to make handmade carpet scissors

After you have done the act of defying the hand-woven carpet and arranging the woven lint by hand or comb, we are going to do the carpet scissors work, which, as its name implies, is done by carpet weaving scissors.

It is very important to be careful in doing this, and not doing this properly will cause your carpet to knot and its surface will go up and down (mold, lamb or corn) and this will cause a sharp drop in the quality and price of your carpet. will be.

The method of doing carpet scissors is to hold the scissors with the thumb and forefinger and the middle of the right hand, while the two edges of the scissors are on the fingers of the left hand to help bring the edges of the blades closer to the right hand. Place the two edges of the scissors on the roots and cut the scissors to the required height.

Do not forget that the scissors are not done with the tip of the scissors at all, and this is done with the middle parts of it, and we must be careful when pressing the edges of the scissors on the carpet that we should not reduce the amount of pressure and Increase, as this will cause the carpet surface to be asymmetrical.

Read more: What is the number of handmade carpets and how is it calculated?

How to measure scissors and carpet defiance

One thing that can be very important to you when buying and selling handmade rugs is to be able to determine if your rug is of the right quality in terms of scissors and weight.

To measure the carpet scissors in terms of quality, your work is very simple and you can make sure that your carpet is flat and uniform by tapping in different places of the carpet.

But in terms of whether the size and density of the villi used are appropriate or not, you need to do a series of calculations.

All you have to do is place your rug on the scales and get the total weight, now it’s time to divide this weight by the square footage of the rug to get the weight per square meter, ie if your rug is 4 * 3 means 12 square meters and you can get the weight of each meter by dividing the total weight of the carpet by 12.

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