Technique: Soumak
Origin: Iran
Age: Old
Welft: Cotton
Warp: Cotton
SOUMAK SAMARJE- The term Soumakh points the technique "wrapped woofs" used for the weaving of certain kilims and diffused in whole east. Exist innumerable variations but simplifying: to get the designs of carpet the woof of kilim, before weaved, are wrapped with wools of various colors (in effects the Soumakhs are easily recognizable for the compact consistence and for many colored woofs that race free on the reverse of the carpet).
