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@totoanimo1671111162 · 23 Aug 2022
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The comprehensive working process to manufacture a Turkish carpet (process of a Turkish rug)

#Turkstapijt
#ambacht
#kunstig craft


In a meadow in Turkey, a sheep is shaved by the Shepherd. In the summer it is hot and the animal is a bit happy to get rid of that thick coat.
The sheep shepherd is also happy about it. Because, of course, it means extra money. Cheerfully with several bales of sheep's wool, he steps to his neighbour. It has huge machines for washing and combing the wool. He also buys the Shepherd's wool and later resells it to the spinster at a slightly higher price.
The spinster has been trained in the profession from a young age and buys the combed wool from him.
It now looks super white and straight in structure.
This wool is transferred to the dyeing plant.
In Turkey, only vegetable dye is used for the wool.
However, due to an age-old experience, the Dyeers know that not all dye is naturally absorbed by the wool.
That is why aluminum sulphate is added to a waterbed. 50 kg of wool is immersed in it for four hours. This makes the fibers of the wool quite stiff.
So that the product has to be rinsed out again in pure water and centrifuged until dry in a centrifuge.
Then you can start dyeing.
Each color is obtained in a different way.
To convert the wool from beige to brown, a bath of water is filled with finely ground nut shells. Part of the wool is immersed in it.
The red color is obtained with the cochinelle or with madder.
A cochinelle is an aphid that sucks the juice from the flat discs of a cactus to survive.
Centuries ago, this animal was discovered that it gives off a red color when it feels attacked. That color is so invariable that you can never remove it again.
The Astings and the Mayans had discovered and passed this on.
When the Spanish walked in their parts and had seen this from them, they also collected cochineals and put them to dry in caves.
At that time, in Spain, this red dye of the aphids was very expensive. Only the super-rich could have their clothes dyed in it.
It wasn't worth as much as silver.
The Madder is a plant that must be crushed in water to retrieve the red color.
The cochinelles and their eggs are also mixed with water.
Blue is obtained with indigo.
Yellow with kite, beech leaf, goldenrod, turmeric, yellow wood.
Black with galapoles, blue wood, tannin, iron sulphate (continued)



  • Comments (33)
Mary Ortega
it's a strong job but it's a great product when it's really finished it's a pleasure to be able to give credit to those people who do it
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Carmen Vidal
It is a well-elaborated process, in my country in the Andean and Zulian areas there are artisans who do it, it is a great job
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Little Ekko
it seems to me that it is a very slow process because it is a material that must go through so much in order to have a beautiful rug
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armandofuen2012
In itself, carpets have a great preparation of them to give good results, highlighting that it has a process for their creation which is very interesting.

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Rosita&Charlene-Blogs-Creaties
You used very nice photos for this and you wrote this great and very well again. Beautiful and fun to read and see. 
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Kinderworkshops Petra
Wonderful how nature provides colors to be incorporated into these beautiful carpets. Beautiful photos and blog you made of it.
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Gollo
It's a rather difficult job, it goes through a lot of process to make these rugs and have the right color, it's interesting to learn how to get the colors.
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ALBA P.R.
My grandma used to do this too . I really love this . And these women are so talented !!! 
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Naturefreak
There is a lot that precedes it before you have such a rug ready. You brought it fun again.
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Dtorr
I like how you explain the whole tanning process I think that's what tanning is called, wool can be a little heavy when it's wet
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abreusoleidy
Congratulations for the wonderful work that these people do to introduce us to these beauties that remind me of my childhood watching Aladdin
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Mrc
This is art and very good the work they do to make carpets is very good I thought machines were used but I see that people are involved in it.
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sofibrav
I didn't know where the colors for the fabrics came from, now I'm surprised how durable they are in clothes, they must have something special for their fixation.
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Toto Animo
@sofibrav I know that the cochinille aphid that lives on the flat discs of a cactus plus their eggs give off a durable red. If you pack it with your hands, you won't get the color off.
I also find it amazing that this is so.
No red is as tenacious as the... Show more
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gertrudizvidal
You think that this elaboration is not difficult, but I see that it is such an intense process, but the important thing is that the finished product is a dream.
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rosarr
It's impressive how they do it, I think that's where fabrics are made and then we turn it into something else.
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Tatti Ps
from what you describe it is a very strong work and the details of how colors are formed is impressive
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dalinroma2.0
I think that this work is so strong that it is so important to give it the value of what is seen in the market
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Betania202
what an intense process it seems to me that the process is not very easy but the finished product is a dream
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Michell
wow it's too difficult a process really it's something impressive what can a person from another country like
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Freli
Once I was in that process, it's a lot of fun to do every step of it, The carpets remind me of The Aladin Movie
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Rasher
Wow it's impressive how lovely to see the type of embroidery to make these rugs very cute as colorful Handmade
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kelly_Pan
When we were in Turkey, we saw the weaving of these rugs almost daily

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Rudy Siedlecki 🌳
Very interesting. Did you know that these red aphids are also used in the food industry? In 'Fristi', cochinelles are also used to color the drink pink.
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Toto Animo
@Rudy Siedlecki 🌳 the bugs give off red that you can hardly get rid of. They are probably grown for that purpose. All right, the cactus leaf lice do not realize that.
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Beatriz4
The rugs made by the Turks are very nice, it is a good job they do to get that good result
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HippieFox
I love them, very nice patterns and a fine piece of craftsmanship. It is an art that really needs to be learned with a lot of patience, I think, and that will also be passed on from generation to generation there. ❤️
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Mevrouw Stip...
When we were in Turkey, we saw the weaving of these rugs almost daily. It's also great how they are made by hand. 
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Dewaputra
There is still a lot to make such a Turkish carpet, interesting to read. Personally, such a rug is not like my taste, I like modern more.
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