4915 Camp Bowie Blvd,
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
(Next to Kincaid’s Hamburger)
Copyright © 2016. Atlas Rug Gallery
4915 Camp Bowie Blvd,
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
(Next to Kincaid’s Hamburger)
The manufacturing of carpets in Pakistan
began in the same way as in India and when
the country was separated from India most of
the weavers, which were Muslims, moved to
the Pakistan side. Most of them found jobs in
Lahore and Karachi, and at the same time the
government began to support the import of
quality yarn.
In Pakistan, carpets are manufactured
nowadays with fine Australian wool yarn
making these carpets very similar to silk
carpets. Carpets with a high knot density
provides strong durability at a lower price
than its Persian parallels.
The Pakistani carpets, which today are mass-
produced (in Lahore, Karachi and
Rawalpindi), are divided into Mori carpets
and Persian where 90% of the Mori carpets
have a Bokhara-like pattern and other
Turkmenistan patterns. Ziegler carpets that
are manufactured in Pakistan have patterns
that are copied from older traditions in the
Arak district, Persia. Carpets are also being
manufactured here that gathers inspiration
from Caucasian carpets and are sold as
"Kazak Fine"
Pakistan
Hand-Knotted
Since the late 1940′s, Pakistan has been
weaving rugs from the most notable Bohkara
design (a repeating Gul design normally
woven in several different colors and
qualities) to the modern Caucasian designs
such as the Agra and Peshawar, often
incorporating modern decorative colors into
traditional Persian floral designs. Pakistan
looms are most known for 16/18 quality
Persian weave, tribal rugs of very fine wools.
The Pakistani 16/18 has a Persian knot
weave and is in the upper 200′s knots per
square inch.