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.

We, YISI oriental silk carpet offers a large of pure handmade silk carpets with different patterns and different sizes for your options.  Welcome to contact us by email eastcarpet1966@gmail.com or visit our store show in Shanghai(address: 2327 jianhe road, changning distrct, shanghai, china). Official website: http://www.silkcarpetschina.com

We are specialized in making pure handmade silk carpets!

YISI Silk Carpet was built in 1988 that is specialized in designing, producing and trading Chinese handmade silk carpets. Because of elegance design, good workmanship and comfortable service, we have good reputation both in the domestic and foreign area. It is well known in the world that Chinese silk carpets are woven out of the high quality silk, hand-knotted, with high-density and superb quality, graceful and various in design, harmonious in color matching, shining and smooth in surface and with very competitive prices which become one of the best-welcome carpets in the international market. At the same while, more and more people show much interest on silk carpet such as its material, designs, weaving course, size and density.

Specific procedure of produing handmade silk carpet:

Material

Real off the raw silk fiber from the cocoons and only one third of the silk from the cocoons can be used to weave silk carpets. Then bind the silk fiber into silk strands. Put the silk strands into boiling alkaline water from 30-40 minutes to make it soft and later rinse the alkali and impurities by clean water.

Design

Draw design on a chart and match the different colors on it so that the weavers can follow. This is a creative work. The artisans must have a blue print in their mind. Actually the finished carpet is the representation of the design. By now, there are Peking Design, Esthetic Design, Floral Design, Embossed Design, Antique Design and Chinese-Persian Design.

Weaving

Warps will be fixed on the loom rack, which is almost like a standing frame consisting of 4 bars. The warps will be looped tightly between the top bar and the bottom one. Heddles will be bound between another horizontal bar and warps. After the foundation is woven by plain silk thread the carpet knotting will start. The silk yarns will be clasped around the warps by either the Turkish Ghiordes knots (Double knots) or by the Persian Senneh knots. Then the end of the silk thread will be cut off by knife. When a raw of knots is finished the weft will run through compartment space between front and back warps. With the comb the knots and wefts will be struck hard against the wefts. It will be cut down from the loom rack after finished. The ends of the warps will be coiled up into beautiful tassels. The carpet will be sheared evenly and washed thoroughly before being sold.

Size and Density

We offer rectangular, runner, square, oval and round shape silk carpets. Normal sizes of the carpets including 2 by 3feet, 2.5 by 4 feet, 2.5 by 6 feet, 2.5 by 8 feet, 2.5 by 10 feet, 3 by 3feet, 3 by 5 feet, 3 bye 10 feet, 4 by 4 feet, 4 by 6 feet, 5 by 8 feet, 6 by 9 feet, 8 by 8 feet, 8 by 10 feet, 10 by 10 feet, 9 by 12 feet, 10 by 14 feet, 12 by 18 feet. Normal knot density including 120 lines per foot, 130 lines, 140 lines, 260 lines, 300 lines, 400 lines, 500 lines, 600 lines, 700 lines, 800 lines, 900 lines, 1000 lines.

Handmade silk carpets are difficult to weave, especially the ones with more than 300 lines density, which causes less and less young girls like to weave it nowadays thus its art value and preservation value will be much higher in future. Our company gets good quality carpets from weavers stably and many of them are high-density ones. At the central of Shanghai city, we have two brilliant showrooms setting out various types of silk carpets so that more and more people can touch and feel this type of Chinese traditional art and craft and we have gotten high reputation and appreciation from our clients and visitors by now. For touching our tenet CUSTOMER FIRST QUALITY FOREMOST, we offer more service such as washing, stain removing, repairing, restoration, valuations. Your satisfaction is our goal.

We hope set up good relationship with people domestic and abroad in future and make your families and offices comfortable and glorious.

Contact Details：

Company name: East Carpet Company

Sale department: Shanghai Sunshine Art & Craft Co., Ltd

Saleroom No.1: 2327# Jianhe Road, Changning District, Shanghai (by Hongqiao Road and near Marriott Hotel Hongqiao)

Saleroom No.2: 138# Central Henan Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai (near Bund Center and Westin Hotel Shanghai)

Telephone No.: 0086-21-62294728

Website: http://www.silkcarpetschina.com

E-mail: service@eastcarpet.com.cn