How Traditional Rug Weaving Is Being Preserved Today
The weaving of traditional rugs is one of the most ancient and prestigious arts that the world has seen, and it depicts hundreds of years of culture, heritage, and craft. It does not matter where these handwoven carpets originate from, be it Persia, Turkey, India, or Central Asia; each of them have a different and distinct story. Hand-knotted carpets were being lost to the world of globalisation. Machine-made carpets and stressful lifestyles made people worry that the art might eventually die out slowly and steadily. But today, there has been a deliberate attempt to maintain and propagate traditional rug weaving all over the world, and thus, this history will live for many more years to come. Reviving Ancient Techniques Keeping the ancient method of weaving is one of the main ways through which traditional rug weaving is being kept alive. There are still experts who use techniques that were century-old techniques, such as Persian knot, Turkish knot, Kashmiri weavin...