Rugs are factory-made or hand-made products. They can be made of wool, silk, leather, animal skin and more. Usually rugs are piled. They are used to cover a floor or to decorate walls.
At first let’s know about what is the difference between rugs and gobelins or mats. Threads of rugs’ pile are fastened off with knots.
At the same time a gobelin or a tapestry has no knots, threads are dragged through the base and these threads are nailed down to each other by using special fork.
There are two kinds of surfaces and ornaments. Rugs are manufactured, using very difficult, accurate technique, with mathematical precision.
On the contrary, gobelins are manufactured quite arbitrary. There are no rows, and pattern lines can be designed anyhow. So you may apply certain freedom and fantasy.
Apart from rugs and gobelins there are mats. They differ in the method of threads interweaving (it is very similar to that in tapestry).
Also mats are made of sisal (dried fibers of agave). But nevertheless, mats are prototypes of rugs.
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