Materials used in Chinese rugs

Very soft wool loosely twisted is used in early Ming fabrics, several strands are found in each knot tied, which as they untwist make a fine surface almost like velvet.

While wool is used in the weft and sometimes in the warp in rugs of the Western part of the Chinese Empire and in Tibet, we rarely if ever find a wool web in the rugs of Eastern China.

Cotton very crudely prepared appears in warp and woof in Chinese rugs both coarse and fine but cotton is very rarely used in the pile.

This material has been adopted by the Japanese, who closely imitate in cotton and jute the wool and silk rugs of China, Persia and other parts of the Orient.