Why pure handmade silk carpets are so expensive?

Pure handmade silk carpet: without the use of any machinery and equipment, completely hand made, taking silk as the weaved material. Nanyang of Henan in China is known as a hundred-year handmade silk production base.

Silk generally refers to silk, including mulberry silk, tussah silk. Raising silkworm and tussah are a very hard work, but because of low production of silkworm, heavy workload, and slowly people turned to raising tussah. Tussah is long in the mountains, eating oak leaves, so named. Since 2000, the price of tussah is rising, but the sericulture work more tired, use the head with a basket of 40 kilograms of silkworm crawling about 100 meters of the hillside, the workload is very great. With the older generation of sericulture people growing old, young people tending to go out to work, coupled with the growing natural enemies birds of tussah and so on, the number of people raising tussah now continues to decline. So the production of tussah silk continues to decrease, the price of silk rises straightly.

About in 2000 or so, every night, every family is brightly lit, are woven in hand silk carpets. Weaving handmade carpets are not tired, but are particularly costly, especially 500 hand (1 foot with 500 lines, 1 foot equal to 30.48 cm) above the handmade silk carpets. Long time to sit still can lead to lumbar spine, cervical disease, plus 80,90 young people tend to go out to work, no longer learn this skill, so people will be hand-woven silk carpets less and less. Although a lot of machines are now used to weave silk carpets, but the machine can not weave more than 500-line silk carpets, because the line is too fine. In general, weaving a piece of 500-line 2 * 3 handmade carpets requires a period of 1 year even though you are a skilled weaver.

So now the price of purely handmade silk carpet is becoming so expensive. With the rising cost of labor, the loss of traditional process, its price will continue to rise, as "soft gold", it is worthy of the name! Gold prices are going up and down, but the price of pure handmade silk carpets rises in a straight line. Because it has a high use value, collection value and appreciation value.

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