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Experience The Rugs of Kaibab Difference
• Hand Knotted Craftsmanship
• Professional In Home Viewings
• Custom Carpets
What you can expect from our rugs
Rugs of Kaibab supplies high quality hand knotted oriental rugs from India. Each rug in our
collection is hand selected by the president of Rugs of Kaibab. We evaluate each aspect of
color, material, and design before making the decision to add a rug to our inventory. If a
client has a special rug in mind, custom products are also available. We will work to provide
your firm with the best product for you client.
Color Content
And most significantly, when looking at the color of an oriental rug, the composition should
say something to you. Each rug has its place and not all are interchangeable. A rug with vegetable
dyes will not have the same feel as a rug with non-vegetable dyes. Also, the color saturation of a
carpet, depending on the desires of the weaver, can be of a consistent tone, or contain an effect
known as abbrash. It is the effect created by using different dye lots of the same color, and when
done correctly, gives the rug a natural look: random yet continuous.
Wool
The type of wool will also affect the look of a carpet significantly. There is semi-worsted wool
and then there is wool. Semi-worsted wool yields a beautiful strand of yarn with a high sheen and
a very soft feel. Regular wool is coarser and has a duller look. And the spinning method will give
the rug strikingly different characteristics. Hand spun wool and machine spun wool differ very much
in their look and feel. There are other methods such as Soumak and Dhurrie (Kilim) that are used as
well. Each type of wool yields a different feel and can influence the overall appeal of a room.
Pattern and Design
A significant component of an oriental rug I take into consideration when buying is the design.
For more than a thousand years, people have been moving back and forth between Eastern Europe and
the Far East edge of Asia on what has become known as the Spice Trail. That movement has spawned
the spread of countless designs and innovations in all walks of life, and the same is true with rug
design.
Many designs are named after the city, tribe or region in which they first appeared. However, over
the centuries those localized designs have moved around so that in our time, a rug named after a city
could be manufactured in any number of places. The design gives us a history of its origin, but does
not always tell us where a particular rug was made.
Designs that would be considered city rugs generally have greater detail in the design and a softer
more refined look and feel. The weavers usually use wool that has a brighter sheen. The carpets also
tend to have a tighter pattern with a higher knot count.
Tribal rugs typically have less detail in the design with more open spaces and basic figures and
characters defining the area. The wool will normally be coarser in feel and muted in tone. Tribal
rugs are generally made with a looser weave and lower knot count.
Rugs that don’t fit into one of the above mentioned categories fall into one of the following areas.
Transitional rugs generally contain hints of city rug influence with natural patterns interspersed.
Contemporary rugs are more open designs using natural and geometric patterns. And flatweaves tend to
look more like what we consider to be a Navajo Rug.
The knotting methods, the basic symbols used, the material preparation: they have all traveled from one
end to the other of the Spice Trail. And the result today is a rich cultural history that we know as an
Oriental Rug.
Rug Construction
Rugs of Kaibab is proud of the fact that we offer only the finest quality carpets. Each of our
traditional oriental rugs is hand knotted, guaranteeing that with proper care, each of our rugs will
last many generations. Unlike hand tufted rugs, our carpets will not self destruct under normal wear
and tear in the span of ten to fifteen years. Ours will be passed on from generation to generation
becoming family heirlooms.
What you can expect from Rugs of Kaibab
We at Rugs of Kaibab pride ourselves on developing open and honest relationships with our clients.
We provide in home viewings. If the rug you need cannot be found in our inventory, provide us with
an idea, a picture, or a specific request and let us help you create whatever you desire.
We have a large selection of in-stock rugs in many sizes and are continually working to increase
the customer’s options. Take a look at what we have in stock at www.rugsofkaibab.com. New shipments
arrive twice a year. If you need something special, contact us at
brad@rugsofkaibab.com
or (928) 830-0268 and we can discuss every possibility.
Sincerely,
Brad Scott
Rugs of Kaibab LLC
Owner/President
IFDA Industry Partner
More details on our products and terms of sale can be found at
www.rugsofkaibab.com.
The rugs we sell have a quality rating associated with them. The numbers actually tell
the weavers how many Knots per Square Ince (KPSI) there are supposed to be. To help you to decipher
what the numbers mean, we have made the following chart.
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| Quality |
KPSI |
| 3.5/32 |
28 |
| 5/28 |
35 |
| 5/32 |
40 |
| 6/6 |
36 |
| 6/40 |
59 |
| 6/45 |
67 |
| 7/18 |
31 |
| 7/40 |
69 |
| 8/8 |
64 |
| 8/36 |
71 |
| 9/9 |
81 |
| 9/25 |
56 |
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| Quality |
KPSI |
| 9/54 |
120 |
| 9/60 |
133 |
| 10/10 |
100 |
| 10/14 |
140 |
| 10/32 |
79 |
| 10.5/48 |
124 |
| 11/32 |
87 |
| 12/60 |
178 |
| 13/65 |
209 |
| 14/14 |
196 |
| 16/80 |
316 |
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