For a person who has never had any experience with oriental rugs, one of the biggest questions asked is "Is this rug handmade or machine-made?". One of the quickest and easiest ways to tell the difference is to look at the back of the rug. Look at the fringe; if the fringe looks like it was added on at the end, then you can be sure that the rug is machine-made. Also, if the rug has no fringe, it means the rug was made by machine. Fringe is a part of the composition of a handmade rug. Therefore, if the fringe looks like a natural extension of the rug, this is a good indicator that it was made by hand.
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Also, the stitches on the back of the rug make it easy to tell if the rug was made by a person or a machine. If a person made the rug, the stitching will be slightly uneven; a machine, however, can make the stitching perfectly even.
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Another way to tell the difference between machine-made and handmade rugs is the material used to weave the rug. Natural fibers can indicate that the rug was either made by hand or by machine, but if the material is not natural, it was made by a machine.
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