Afghan Rugs Process.

[Breshna]

Afghan Rug Process Video - YouTube

This is how...the

actual rugs are...made.

The old woman...touches my soul.

I keep...thinking

are her hands...sore

from all that...spindling?

[Tjanaparh]

I love working with wool, even its a female job, I was making sometimes this pressed wool material(do not know how you say it in English), it is similar to the Pakol material I think.
Unfortunately it is realy hard - for example wool from some sheep is very difficult to divide.
some wool is dividible easily in half an hour , while other is like a carpet when cut from the sheep and takes many hours to be divided.
Also it is a bit digusting to clean it from all parasites that are living in the wool.
We usualy soak the wool and wash it several times, than dry it , divide it, beat it up, rewash it, redry it rebeat it. Its a process i made first, cause the other familiars were using a quiet more difficult process of beating the wet wool to get rid of the lanoline, however they stated that for my purposes(the pressed wool), my process is much better and faster. For simple purposes(and we do only simple ones) we colour the wool with green nut shells, that give very nice brown colour and do not need any mordant.

[Tjanaparh]

The pressed wool seems to be called FELT in English

[Tjanaparh]

it looks like that only I have only 2 colours, white and brown:

[Breshna]

I love working with wool, even its a female job, I was making sometimes this pressed wool material(do not know how you say it in English), it is similar to the Pakol material I think.
Unfortunately it is realy hard - for example wool from some sheep is very difficult to divide.
some wool is dividible easily in half an hour , while other is like a carpet when cut from the sheep and takes many hours to be divided.
Also it is a bit digusting to clean it from all parasites that are living in the wool.
We usualy soak the wool and wash it several times, than dry it , divide it, beat it up, rewash it, redry it rebeat it. Its a process i made first, cause the other familiars were using a quiet more difficult process of beating the wet wool to get rid of the lanoline, however they stated that for my purposes(the pressed wool), my process is much better and faster. For simple purposes(and we do only simple ones) we colour the wool with green nut shells, that give very nice brown colour and do not need any mordant.

^Interesting process.

The Pakol is made of...either camel or lamb wool.


The press material...is called fleece.