Persian rug guide
Aug 14, 2022
Why Handmade carpets are as precious as mahogany furniture.
Handmade carpets are as precious as mahogany furniture.
The so-called handwork is actually relative to the mechanism.The advantage of the mechanism is that it can be mass-produced, which is not only high in production efficiency, but also cheap in price.
However, the disadvantage of this product is that it is outdated quickly, and even can only set off a wave in a certain era node.
The most important feature of handmade products lies in its uniqueness and rarity, as well as the artistic appreciation value and collection value hidden behind it, which is why some rich people in China like to buy and collect mahogany furniture and handmade carpets, like mahogany furniture, have incomparable artistic value and collection value compared with general mechanism carpets, and are known as "soft gold".
Especially today, when all kinds of machine-made carpets and chemical fiber carpets are full of the market, the environmental protection value and collection value of handmade carpets are particularly precious, and it is very exquisite and gorgeous, and it is not easy to be copied.
Hand-made carpets are woven by hand-knotting, so the use of colors can be unlimited.
It is also very normal for a hand-made carpet to use hundreds of colors of silk thread, which is why the pattern content of hand-made carpets can be so rich, and the flower scenery can be so vivid and like relief.
Therefore, hand-woven carpets have extremely high artistic appreciation value, which is beyond the reach of machine-made carpets.
In addition, the pattern of hand-made carpet is interwoven with warp and weft, that is, the knotting process mentioned earlier makes the hand-made carpet can be used for more than a hundred years, so the hand-made carpet doesn't need to use glue on the back to reinforce the fluff like the machine-made carpet, and it won't be devalued as the machine-made carpet is used more and more, but will only become more valuable with the increase of years.
If well maintained, it can become an antique carpet, which is also a long-term investment.
Even the color of the old carpet is more attractive than that of the new carpet, so if you have enough budget, you can buy an antique carpet, and you won't regret it whether it is appreciation or investment collection.
Everyone who knows about handmade carpets knows that in the field of handmade carpets, the old carpet is definitely more expensive than the new carpet, which is the law.
Moreover, as more and more young people are unwilling to engage in this extremely patience-tested craft work, there are fewer and fewer genuine handmade carpets on the market, and even many of them are machine-made imitation carpets.
Although the designs of handmade carpets are not as delicate and vivid as those of ordinary consumers, it is still difficult to distinguish them, so many families regard handmade carpets as their "heirlooms", which are passed down from generation to generation.
Mark Lampe, a carpet expert at Christie's, once said, "I have seen some antique blankets with a history of 300 or 400 years. They have been used by different owners all the time and are still well preserved."
In short, owning a handmade carpet, just like owning a mahogany furniture, is one of the choices to improve the grade and taste of soft packing.
More importantly, after thousands of years of change and development, the unique cultural connotation and artistic value of handmade carpets have moved more and more people.
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