The History of Hand Made Carpets in China

China's carpet weaving is a traditional manual process, has a long history.

 
Xinjiang is China's main source of the carpet. Alpine climate where people lived a nomadic life, requires a large amount of fabric to prevent wet cold hands and beautify living, resulting in the use of wool or Tuomao twist into lines, in accordance with Part I of the ancient method of weaving a beautiful backdrop of blanket patterns categories, namely organizational structure for the plain weaving carpets, later invented a thickness-wai, planted cashmere organizational structure, the planting of more thick cashmere hand-knotted carpet is the carpet.

More than 2,000 years ago, China's carpet weaving process has reached a mature level. Xuan Zang "Datang's Western Regions", the record of more than 1,000 years ago, the local carpet industry flourishing situation. 1959, Hotan region Minfengxian unearthed from the ancient carpet pieces, is the best proof, it is now weaving methods and local civil carpet weaving process similar guitar by withholding detailed horseshoe deduction (Turkey guitar), Jingwei density of 330, only now Hotan carpets Jingwei than 360 less density around 30. To the Han Dynasty, with the elimination of the Hun Han Tati, a leading to the West, and Europe - and the Silk Road trade channels opened, the Silk Road not only carried silk, carpets, porcelain, tea and spices, to the East-West cultural exchange and dissemination, carpet weaving technology to China as China's Silk Road through Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe, but also to the Chinese people see the deputies Persian civilization Persian carpets, Persian carpets in the pictorial still retains many of the same pattern with China carpet patterns. It was also suggested that such carpets originated in China, but in the hands of Persian designer, carefully revised and added to the Persian color, which became a Middle East-style logo. Where these two ancient civilizations from constantly learn from each other, exchange and learn from traditional Chinese motifs and traditional Persian designs, as well as the weaving process in Tianchangrijiu integration, which has achieved an elegant fine art of carpet.

In the 17th, the 18th century Ming and Qing Dynasties, China handmade carpet manufacturing process to an unprecedented height, and consume over in the palace and temples. During this period produced a large number of US-hwan Murano carpets, in many countries, China is a permanent carpet and art collections. For example: New York Metropolitan Museum, Washington, DC Textile Museum, the Royal Canadian Angteliao Museum, the Victoria Museum in London, and so possession of a Chinese carpet. However, the 20th century after China since ancient times used by the carpet hand yarn spinning machines were replaced by natural vegetable dye synthesis of chemical dyes replaced by the use of modern means of batch processing carpet, discard the traditional manual process.
China's reform and opening up, as the needs of foreign trade and exports, especially in recent years, China's national strength increased, and the people living and working in large and medium-sized cities in coastal and chasing high-grade classic décor also have varying degrees of need, and therefore China hand-made carpets in the an unprecedented development, emerged in many handmade blankets Centre, Nanyang silk carpets, wool carpets, Xinjiang, Tibet, wool carpet is one of the representatives.

  Silk Road
Ancient Silk Road about 6000 kilometers, is the starting point of China's Chang'an (now Xi'an), via the northwest, the Pamirs, the mountains across the Kalakunlun, after Sama Gan and Persia Hamedan, arrived in the Mediterranean port Alexandria Yali . Silk Road in 2070 100 years Han Wudi to conquer large areas of West Asia began after use, the Mongol Empire during the 13th century Italian businessman Marco Polo came to China via the Silk Road