silk carpets | Shanghai | Jul 24, 2009 01:49
Handmade Carpet: Invaluable Treasure

Compared with machine-made carpet, handmade carpet plays a special role in the carpet industry. For taking long weaving time and hand-knotting completely, handmade carpet is not so mass-produced as the machine-made. Each of handmade carpet takes up many months or years laborious works. It costs higher but lasts much longer.

With the sincere feeling and smart heart, the artisans create the original crafts by traditional skills, using the simple or complex designs to express the belief and significance of life, and weaving the everlasting beauty and eternal memory with those continuously knotting. The gorgeous design, rich color, vivid picture and fine workmanship endue those rugs a sense of affections and permanence of art.

Practice makes perfect. Only those artisans disciplined and experienced can create the long-lasting charm of arts. Each rug has its own word, concentrating the dream of designer, the toil of weaver and the wish of possessor. As no two leaves are exactly the same in the world, no two handmade carpets in the world are identical. They are all unique and exclusive. In the long life, those handicrafts, with their special language and strong body, will present their lovers contemplation of life, appreciation of arts, interaction of spirit, and certification of quality.

It is the thing of values. Fine handmade carpet can mentally interchange minds with people. He needs not any more word but lies there quietly, listening and recording what his master says and thinks. As time goes on, he becomes a loyal old servant. It reminds us that people in limited life could create and hold unlimited values.

The essence of art is to serve the life. Each kind of art expresses material and spiritual wants of human. As one type of art, Oriental carpet presents a kind of elaboration which is not easy to duplicate. This kind of elaboration becomes more and more treasurable for its rareness.

Nobility comes from rareness. As unusual handicrafts, handmade carpets represent the wealth, taste and status of possessor. In the mechanization society of 21 century, this symbolism is more important than its usage. The rich culture and unfading beauty lying in the handmade carpets make them the treasures of many collectors, palaces, architects, galleries and museums in the world.


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