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Wool Rugs
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There are a great variety of materials that are used for making rugs. Of natural fiber most known are wool, silk and cotton. Comparing to other wool is a soft, durable and relatively cheap material. That makes wool rugs
most comon type on the rugs market.
Wool for making wool rugs is made from coat of sheep.
The quality of wool rugs highly depend on a region where the sheep is from. Wool of sheeps that from high altitudes is superior. That type of wool for high quality wool rugs can be obtained at high altitudes of mountainous regions of Iran(former Persia) and in the the Caucasian mountains.
More durable wool rugs are made of wool from the Middle East. They are used in areas with high traffic. Wool is very easy to dye so the wool rugs are available is a great variety of defferent color from pure white to gray and brawn. Sometimes a little bit of animal hair is added into the wool.
That gives the wool rugs a nice shiny look.
Nowaday wool rugs of different types, forms and sizes are presented on the market. They can be hand-made or produced by machines. Hand-made wool rugs are all unique intheir kind and so they are expensive. Machine made wool rugs are cheaper and be made with any design and decorating motifs pictured on them.
You can also look for wool rugs online. There is huge amount of information on that theme on the internet.
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