Chinese carpets have centuries-old history enjoying great reputation. Assimilating the essence of Persian carpet industry, the skillful Chinese craftsmen improved the workmanship of carpet weaving to the peak of perfection. Chinese hand-made silk rugs have soft texture and shining colors. Persian carpets are famous for the various designs with ethnical traits. Chinese carpets also indicate its national styles. The traditional Chinese designs (dragon’s images, peony flowers) and auspicious symbols (longevity symbols) are always weaved on carpets. Traditional Chinese design silk carpets are always sheared so the motifs of the carpets are very vivid and they look like sculptures. Persian designs are also popular in Chinese silk carpets. However, Chinese craftsmen have weaved incredible refined Persian design silk rugs with much higher density of knots than the Iranian and Turkish carpets. Chinese craftsmen even knotted the top quality silk rugs with one million knots per square foot.
People have realized the value of Chinese high quality silk rugs since the 1980s.The art of traditional Chinese paintings are applied in silk tapestries waving thus it makes high quality Chinese silk tapestries warm welcomed by collectors. Our silk carpets are directly from the craftsmen in the villages so they are not expensive as the silk rugs in stores. Especially our silk carpets are much cheaper than that sold in North America and Europe. Quite a few carpet dealers from Iran and Turkey even imported our silk rugs to make huge profits. The silk carpet industry in China encounters difficulties due to short labor forces and increasing salary. Less and less people continue to weave silk carpets because silk carpets are too difficult to make. At the same time the weavers can make more money if they do other jobs. So it is not an alarmism that high quality silk rugs will disappear in the near future and absolutely the high quality Chinese silk rugs are increasing in value.
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