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How Do You Determine If a Rug Is Handmade?

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Handmade rugs are a great addition to your houses’ vintage décor. They are not only practical but also look classy in your home. Handmade rugs are expensive but once you have made the investment, you can reap the benefits for a long time. But differentiating an expensive handmade rug from a machine-made one is difficult and needs a trained eye. People are often duped into buying a normal machine-made rug that is deemed handmade and expensive. You do want that to happen to you. And that is why it is crucial to know how to differentiate between a handmade rug and a machine-made one. How to check your rug’s authenticity? A rug’s material quality is its most important asset and it can help you in differentiating between a handmade rug and a machine-made rug. Persian rugs in Canada are ideally made from natural materials like jute, silk, animal hair, and wool. Or cotton. Some of them might be a combination of silk and cotton or more, but basically, all of them have natural m

How to Find an Authentic Persian Rug in Canada

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If you have an idea of placing a real imported Persian rug in your living room, we can offer you some small tips to know how it differs from other types of rugs, how to distinguish them, their quality and manufacture. We usually know what we want, and appreciate its quality and its touch and decorative qualities, but we are not experts. There are experienced companies that import Persian rugs in Canada and know the best manufacturers and the markets that provide them. They can recommend and guide you about the best qualities and trends. The handcrafted manufacture does not imply not integrating the latest decorative trends. A Persian rug with a certificate of authenticity is made with a manual knot, on handmade looms, and comes from Iran, what used to be Persia. By extension, Persian rugs are also all those that come from the East and are hand-knotted in the traditional way with guarantee of the quality of the threads, dyes and their manufacture. The process of manufacturi