The small white or off white spots that appear at random in a few or sometimes many places on the surface of these rugs are very common.
Cotton knots exposed on oriental rugs.
Two basic knots are used in most persian and oriental rugs.
The symmetrical turkish or ghiordes knot used in turkey the caucasus east turkmenistan and some turkish and kurdish areas of iran and the asymmetrical persian or senneh knot iran india turkey pakistan china and egypt to make a turkish knot for an oriental rug the yarn is.
Depending on the size of the rug it can take several months or even years to complete.
These rugs with a luxurious hand knotted pile are objects of beauty.
In the loom photo to the right turkish weavers are weaving a wool rug.
You can see very clearly that cotton has been strung up on the loom as the warps fibers running the length of the rug and that cotton is also being used as the wefts fibers running the width of the rug in between the rows of knots to hold them in place.
White knots in oriental rugs are an inherent characteristic of authentic oriental rugs.
An oriental rug s pile makes it unique.