An Asian woven rug design is quite primitive all over the world; throughout history man has always felt the need to decorate the things he made and hence weaving is a well recognized craft.
Wool is the weft yarn most used in hand woven area rug weaving and it gives a good hardwearing surface. Choose a worsted spun yarn with medium twist and of fairly coarse fibers.
For the hand woven jute rug, the two-ply rug wool used in the carpet trade is suitable for weaving flat woven area rugs. This can be obtained, in a large range of colors, direct from carpet makers. The same yarn is made up into six-ply specifically for red woven rug weaving and can be bought from weavers’ supply houses.
Pile yarn
Scandinavian suppliers produce special yarns for knotting, called rya and floss yarns. These are a mixture yarn and do not shed their fibers as much as an ordinary woolen yarn when used for the same purpose of the swick woven rug dunbar brown designs.
Working out quantities
When making woven treasures rug, sometimes it is difficult to obtain warp yarn of sufficient weight and a finer thread has to be used, doubled, threefold or sometimes even fourfold. Ideally, rug warp should be at least four-ply.
To calculate the quantity of warp yarn required for an oval woven rug, multiply the number of ends per inch (usually between four and six) by the width of the rug, which will give you the number of warp ends.
Multiply the number of warp ends by the length of the warp — this is the finished length of the round woven rug, plus any wastage taken up on the loom. This will give you the entire warp length needed. Divide this number by the number of yards per pound in the chosen warp yarn and you will arrive at the correct weight of yarn. The yards per pound are usually marked on the packet.
The weft poundage is calculated in a similar way. Work small samples of weaving on a warped frame loom and multiply the number of weft threads per inch by the length of the Asian woven rug. Allowance also has to be made for the yarn to curve over and under the warp threads — this is called the “take-up”. As an approximate guide: half pound wool will work one square foot of rug. Weft thread is supplied either in singles, two-ply or six-ply.