Скачать или смотреть How To Make An Oriental Carpet. Part 9. Tying Off The Fringe - First Video

Well then, the rug is really looking like a rug now, yes? Now it's time to the small details. The first thing to do is tie off the foundation. What this means is detaching the vertical warp strings and tying them off with sturdy little knots. If this doesn't happen, then, as you can imagine, the whole rug will fall apart and all of the piled knots will fall out. Usually, a length of the warp string is left extending beyond the knots. This is the fringe. Most people think that fringe is just decorative. But here you see that the fringe is actually the very foundation of the rug itself. The fringe can be any length you want - in that regard it IS decorative. But the critical thing here is the knot. You can cut the fringe back to the warp knot but if you cut the knot you're going to have some trouble. This is how the process looks...