Handmade Turkish Rug Repair - Final
The first step in our recent Turkish rug restoration was to professionally clean the rug, then attach it to a wooden frame loom, and then slowly rebuild the warp, as shown below:
Our next step was to rebuild the weft, the horizontal strands shown below:
Once the warp and weft were built (the grid like structure above and below), we began knotting the pile. Below, the long yarns are the newly knotted pile:
Below is a picture of the completed reknotting before we cut down the yarns:
And, finally, below is the final result of our recent Turkish rug restoration:
