Hand Hooked Area Rugs
Hand hooked rugs can withstand medium traffic and will normally not begin to show wear until after 5 – 15 years of use. High traffic areas include hallways, family room and entryways. Medium traffic areas include the dining room and home office. Low traffic areas include bedrooms and formal living room.
What distinguishes hand made rugs from machine made runs are the intricate processes used to design and craft them. There are three main types of handmade rugs: knotted, tufted, and hooked. Hand-knotting is the most intricate, labor-intensive rug weaving process in use today. As a result, knotted rugs take much longer to create and are more expensive than other types of rugs.
machine made rugs are mass produced on power loomes. The best way to tell if a rug is machine made or hand made is to look at the fringe. On a machine made rug, the fringe is usually sewn at the back, while in a handmade rug the fringe is a part of the rug and loomed into it. Machine made rugs do not imprefections, while the handmade rug will show many flaws including slight crookedness, inconsistency in the design and other human related mistakes. Machine made rugs are usually made from synthetic materials. A hand hooked wool rug is the most luxurious.
Hooked rugs are manufactured by hooking narrow strips of wool fabric into a backing material. Loops are used to form the pile. This is done by raising the loops above the backing. Intricate designs are formed by hooking shades of varying colors of wool. Very few hooked rugs made prior to the 20th Century are still around today. Backing materials used in these earlier rugs was of poor quality. Early rug makers saw their rugs as utilitarian pieces and placed no value on saving them.
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