To make a carpet these days requires tremendous perseverance. Even when carpet making has developed to the stage of workshops, with several employees working on the same carpet, it is a question of months and often years of painstaking work. The leader would dictate through a series of chants to the other workers the color of the individual strands of wool to be knotted.


A key feature in making the carpets was the bright colors used to form the instricate designs. The manufacture of dyes involved well-kept secrets handed down through the generations. Insects, plants, roots, barks and other substances found in jungles are used for making herbal and vegetable dyes.

Before the dyeing process could begin, the wool had to be washed and dried in the sun to bleach it. The clean wool as then spun by hand. The wool used in carpets varies greatly. The best grades of

Indian wool are used for medium quality carpets while imported wool blended with Indian high-grade wool is used for superior quality carpets. For fine quality carpets, such as Kashmiri carpets worsted yarn is used. The best quality carpets made with high-grade wool develop a beautiful luster after use and therefore old carpets have special values. Today, however, when customers desire to have that effect immediately, the wool is washed with special chemicals to enhance its natural luster. Traditionalists however maintain that the process not only reduces the life of the carpet but also fails to produce the same luster that comes with age and use. They also believe that carpets should never be dry-cleaned. Instead, they should be washed with ritha (a kind of hard berry which is ground and then soaked in water to produce a rich lather with which the carpet is brushed).

The artistic superiority of natural dyes and handspun yarn is indisputable; it is reflected in the passion that the collectors and antique dealers express in distinguishing between "good" and "bad" colors, and between "living" and "dead" wool. Indeed, the dramatic differences in prices paid for vintage carpets with natural dyes, as opposed to merely old carpets woven with aniline or chrome (synthetic) dyes, bears directly on the connection between beauty and materials. The fate of natural dyes corresponds to the fate of handspun yarn: both died a quick death when technology found cheaper, more efficient substitutes. The list of reasons to use synthetic dyes and machine-processed yarns over natural dyes and handspun yarn is much longer than the list of reasons to keep them alive, as the former is about ease and practicality and catering to mass markets while the latter depends on hard work and talent, the slow (by comparison) movement of hands. One thrives on fickleness and fashion and a short attention span, announcing the ever-arriving newness with the speed of headlines, while the other asks you to consider infinity. Infinite variation is at the heart of natural dyes, which include, among many ancient sources, madder root, indigo, milkweed, pomegranate, sage, cutch and cochineal. Abrash, the striations of color that run through terra cotta, flexing apricot and then turning russet, then back to infinite variations on the theme of terra cotta, provides the perfect mirror to nature. Look at the earth and you see abrash, in mountain ranges, desserts, the sea, in autumn, in the grain of old wood furniture. Look into the naturally dyed carpets and you see the memory of its own making, line by horizontal line. The partnership of natural dyes and handspun wool has a long history, it has been with us for thousands of years; its alchemical properties helped form the perception that certain colors were as precious as gold. As in any partnership, they depend on one another, separate them and they both suffer: the wool from dullness, the color from lack of character.

Jaipur International is divided into following four (4) departments, which strive to provide the best carpet and rug to our clients:


Our team of designers is well versed in current on-going trends and also do not loose touch with the oriental and eastern patterns. We train our designers to have work on Eastern, Persian, Asian, Mughul, Turkish and Iranian designs and to develop The same inline with the trends of the millennium. The results of our efforts are depicted in our 16/16 quality, usage of vegetable dyes.


The weaving of our carpets is carried our by experienced and mature craftsmen under supervision of trained Supervisors. We have a strict quality control and all of our products go through extensive and thorough quality checks. With the result that the end product is exactly according to the specifications of our buyers. Our adherence to the specs provided by our clients is also one of the reasons that our buyers rarely leave us. Although cotton came to be used for the warp and weft of the carpet, the herds of sheep provide the basic material, wool. Mostly the wool used to produce these carpets is imported from New Zealand (NZ) and cold mountain climate there provide an added advantage in that the wool was finer and had longer fibers than wool from sheep in warmer climates.




Washing & Finishing of a finished carpet is a very important step in carpet manufacturing. Designs, colors, contrast, quality, and life of carpets depend on their correct washing and finishing. Our staff is fully trained in world-class standards and techniques to completely fulfill these ends. Our clients appreciate the efforts we put in making our carpets live for decades and always look as fresh as new.




Special care is taken in packing our product for export. A carpet is a delicate piece of art and requires to be handled professionally. We make sure that our product reaches our client in its perfect shape, so as to enable them to reap full pleasure out of their purchase.

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