Design Resource
Carpet Weaving - Warangal, Telangana
Making of Durries
by
Prof. Bibhudutta Baral,Divyadarshan C. S. and Rohit C.
Weaving
Weaving of Carpet:
weaving of Warangal carpet is quiet similar to that of handloom weaving of clothes traditionally and incorporates three important steps, namely, warping, winding and the final weaving of Carpet.
Warping
In warping, the dyed or white thread bundles are winded onto a plastic or wooden pipe collecting a series of pipes with thread winded on it, then the starting end of each thread is taken and is made into a single bundle of multiple threads, with the help of a wall mounted warping frame, it is then tightened and sized properly according to required length, the number of threads to be taken depends directly upon the width of carpet required, once the warping is done it is then transferred to the loom.
Winding
In winding the dyed thread bundle is un-winded and is wrapped around an bamboo frame from which it is again transferred to a small iron rod with the help of charkha, according to the required dimensions these little reels of threads will be used in shuttles, which is used in horizontal weaving, and the bundle is called as “pirn”.
Weaving
In Warangal carpet weaving, generally pit looms are used (peddle and hand operated), as it can be set up in the back yard and artisans can work from their own place, after the warping threads are set on to the loom, the weaving is started, usually the horizontal lines and vertical lines of threads will be of different shades or of same shades, depending upon the requirement. Artisan inserts the shuttle containing pirn onto one end of the loom and then he presses the peddle when it ejects out of the second end, and he also simultaneously presses the thread which is laid out by shuttle with the hand operated wooden beam, such that it tightens closely, he repeats the process until the carpet is finished till the other end.
