Rug Flashcards
What is a single piece of compact, woven, knitted, or tufted fabric intended as a floor covering, meant to cover only a portion of the floor area and not the whole floor?
Rug
What classification of a rug is 100 years or more?
Antique
What classification of a rug is 50-100 years old?
Semi-Antique or Old
What are the parallel strings stretched from loom beam to loom beam upon which rows are tied, acting as the stationary threads on a loom and the strongest part of the rug?
Warps
What are the filling yarns that are woven through the warp, helping hold rows of knots in place and strengthening the structure of the rug?
Wefts
What is the surface yarn that makes up the face of the rug?
Pile
What are tied by looping yarn around pairs of warps and cutting off the standing end?
Knots
What holds knots and wefts from working off the rug’s warp strings?
Edge Bindings
What is formed by gathering and knotting together bundles of warp strings at both ends of the rug after it has been cut from the loom?
Fringes
What value of Oriental rugs depends entirely on the durability of the fabric as a floor covering?
Utility Value
What value of Oriental rugs depends upon the color and design rather than the texture?
Art Value
What value of Oriental rugs depends upon the rarity of the art value?
Collector’s Value
What is the background of the rug inside the borders?
Field
What is a round, oval, or polygonal design element that occupies the center of the field?
Medallion
What is the widest decorative design around the outside of the rug?
Main Border
What are the narrow decorative designs flanking the main border?
Guard Border
What are the designs that fill the corners of the field?
Corner Bracket
What rug weaving method bears a close resemblance to hand-knotted rugs but is machine-made?
Machine Woven
What rug weaving method is known to be the most expensive as two looms are required?
Chenille
What rug weaving methods are done by hand?
- Braided - Crocheted - Embroidered - Hand Hooked - Hand Tufted - Hand Knotted
What rug weaving method involves pushing a hooking tool through the foundation cloth to the front of the rug and then pulling the yarn to the back, leaving a loop on the surface?
Hand Hooked
What rug weaving method involves a manually operated hand-tufting gun pushing the yarn through the back of the cloth, then cutting the ends of the tuft?
Hand Tufted
What rug weaving method is known as the best kind of rug construction, where each knot is individually tied by hand?
Hand Knotted
What hand-knotted type is an asymmetric knot invented by Persians, also called the Sehna knot?
Persian Knot
What hand-knotted type has a symmetrical structure, also called the Ghiordes knot?
Turkish Knot
What hand-knotted type is woven without knots and constructed without a pile, where the weft yarns are woven through the warps to create the pattern?
Flat Weave
What type of Oriental rug design is woven in Turkey and consists of tribal and primitive village designs from Persia?
Geometric Rugs
What type of Oriental rug design is made by educated urban people like philosophers, poets, and leaders in Oriental art, featuring intricate flowing patterns?
Floral Rugs
What type of Oriental rug is made by townspeople who weave during winter months, with designs that tend to be repetitive and stylized?
Conventional Rugs
What type of Oriental rug generally has delicately colored all-over patterns of flowers, vines, or leaves starting from a center medallion and almost completely covering the field?
Persian Rug
What type of Oriental rug is characterized by brilliant colors and a naturalistic style, decorated with motifs of flowers, vines, and animals?
Indian Rug
What type of Oriental rug is closely woven with short firm piles in predominantly red backgrounds, featuring squares, diamonds, octagons, and angular motifs?
Turkoman Rug
What type of Oriental rug is small with strong contrasting colors, woven by nomadic tribes with geometric designs incorporating stylized people and animals?
Caucasian Rug
What type of Oriental rug is sometimes called Asia-Minor, woven in both geometric and floral designs, but with smaller patterns and brighter colors than Turkoman or Caucasian?
Turkish Rug
What type of Oriental rug is recognizable by soft ground colors like yellow, rose, salmon-red, beige, and browns, with patterns often in a single blue color featuring Chinese religious symbols?
Chinese Rug
What type of handmade area rug is a colorful handwoven rug, also known as Navajo, featuring primitive geometric patterns, stripes, and borders in a flat weave?
American Indian
What type of handmade area rug was handmade by Americans in the 18th century, consisting of fabric scraps braided and sewn together into colorful round or oval rugs?
Braided Rugs
What type of handmade area rug is a coarse, heavy rug originally meant as a bedspread, hand-loomed by peasants in Alpujira, Spain, featuring bold designs in 2-10 colors?
Alpujira
What type of handmade area rug is a Portuguese hand-embroidered accent rug made in either bright or pastel colors?
Arraiolo
What type of handmade area rug is named after a French town, made of wool, linen, and cotton, with a weave resembling needlepoint and a field in pale cream color with floral designs in pastel shades?
Aubusson
What type of handmade area rug is a Tibetan reversible rug, with old versions featuring bold geometric designs in bright colors and modern ones having subdued patterns and colors?
Dhurrie
What type of handmade area rug is a shaggy, solid-colored wool rug made in Greece?
Flokati
What type of handmade area rug is handwoven with all-over geometric patterns and a center motif, using strong red or blue colors for durability?
Kilim, Kelem, or Kelim
What type of handmade area rug is handwoven with a thick shaggy pile and fringed edges, characterized by dominant geometric patterns with strong contrasting colors like black, rust-brown, white, and orange on red grounds?
Moroccan
What type of handmade area rug is a tapestry-stitch embroidery worked with wool yarns on a canvas mesh backing, where the tightness of the backing determines the tightness of the needlepoint?
Needlework or Gros-point
What type of handmade area rug is a Scandinavian hand-knotted shaggy rug with alternating short and long piles in abstract or contemporary peasant designs?
Rya
What type of handmade area rug is a handwoven rug with a high pile in pastel colors, featuring floral and scroll patterns, originally designed for 18th-19th century houses and palaces in Paris?
Savonnerie
What type of handmade area rug is made from a grass-like product that is twisted into strands and sewn into squares, suitable for contemporary settings?
Sisal
