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Traditionally, all the designs that were used in the
carpet were made manually. It was entirely dependent on
the designers’ creativity to produce a range of colorful
designs. Design outline is prepared
on white paper and
then filled with appropriate colors to make them
different from existing designs. The same design was
used to be converted into different graph papers to
enable weavers understand them clearly so that while
interlocking of wool into cotton they could interpret
the designs accurately. After the finalization of design
a reduced graphical format of the complete
Design was prepared and given to weavers. The whole
designing process used to take around 20-25 days
depending on the compactness and size of the carpet.
While
weaving one translates verbally the graphical design
into their own weaving language called “Boli” and
concurrently other person interlocks the woolen threads
into a net of cotton threads called as “Tana-Bana”. Time
taken for interlocking the wool varies according to
their knotting compactness. Thus the higher the
compactness the greater is time spent by the weavers. At
the end of the process a tough carpet made by weavers
goes through several chemical processes and final
product comes out as a soft and colorful floor covering. |
