How do elite Armenian carpets of 5000 dollars

• How do elite Armenian carpets to 5 thousand dollars

Once in the Soviet Union the carpet was a symbol of wealth and Learn carpets were popular seals and parmesan.

Do you think the carpets have disappeared as a class? Certainly not! You know that 90% of all carpet produced in Armenia ... sold in the United States, and that their value in the carpet boutiques starts from thousands of dollars for a small mat to 6-10 thousand dollars for carpet 3x4 meters?

So nowadays arrange a room on the upper class in the style of a prosperous Soviet party worker (all four walls in the room and the floor) is worth a king's ransom. And if a few rooms? A fortune!

Naturally, this is not a mass consumer goods, produced by the factory of artificial materials, and of handmade carpets, which are made by a few months old technologies from natural sheep's wool.

Today's story about how do expensive luxury carpets in the classical way on one of the factories Megerian brothers in Armenia.

Carpets Megerian brothers are very highly sought after in the United States. I do not know who it was such an ardent fan of the carpet, but that is what it is.

Megerian settled in the United States 100 years ago, migrating during the Armenian Genocide, and occupy a carpet business. After the collapse of the USSR the family began to develop the production of handmade carpets in the historic homeland, opened 22 small factories in different settlements of Armenia.

It is true today of the 22 factories are working only in Yerevan, Abovyan and Hrazdan. According to the director of the Yerevan factory, this is due to the global crisis and strongly falling demand for their carpets to the US, which are the main market for the Armenian carpet industry as a whole. In the US, there are several brothers Megerian carpet boutiques and a whole network of dealers across the country ...

That's how we carpets from the symbol of prosperity and a high place on the social ladder instantly became a sign of poor welfare and low culture of life, and in the United States all the way around ...

in Yerevan on a carpet factory Megerian can visit the production of carpets in the museum and even lunch ... right on the carpet warehouse.

What we'll do.

responded to the crisis, falling sales and profits, adventurous Megerian decided to make his factory tourist attraction at the same time and earn income from visits by tourists, and PR from them, and an additional opportunity to sell their products directly at the factory. All rooms are very anturazhnye factory, is not to see modern industrial luster and modern equipment. Instead, the old classic machines and appliances throughout the workshops various historical artifacts and curiosities related to carpet weaving.

In front of the shop is not possible to pass by the old Soviet posters TB.

They are fixed, of course, on the carpet.

Carder, dressed with canvas only half-bent fingers ...

Another posters

This is the main hall. Here are 8 hours per day, half-bent position of women in weaving carpets.

Hard labor. I noticed that some of them even acquired the characteristic shape of the body bent position.

Total factory employs 30 weavers.

In front of each of them with a statin bases stretched longitudinal threads are woven into them colored locks, use them and create a pattern. On some (usually larger carpets) employs several weavers. Before the eyes of the women hanging pattern scheme with which they are constantly cross-checked, and tufts of colored wool, which is formed from the pattern.

Creating and foundations, and ornament parts - a painstaking hellish work. Each villus start up manually, the rest of the thread is cut off, and then start up the next villus. And so 8 hours a day. On average, 2 months on each carpet. And, sometimes up to 5 months, when drawing a particularly complex.

Tools weavers.

The base of the carpet in the approximation. Between each thread will fix villus. Millions of villi in each rug.

Weaving villi

Colored fibers which create a pattern

In this workshop woven carpets are small in size. This is the most inexpensive models. The store Megerian Brothers in New York, they will be worth 1 thousand dollars.

After the rug is woven, it is necessary to fix the edge of the carpet does not dissolve and make pre-training.

Trimming and edging is carried out manually, too, on this bench.

There is even an office chair covered with rugs)

And this the same device, which has been a mystery last night.

This comb coffer. Once the carpet is woven and turn over, it must be combed out of the hair residues, excess thread and lint.

Brush for combing the carpet

Ancient Overlock

After the carpet comb, he went to the sink. This is the last stage of presales

Washing machine for carpets.

After finished carpets had washed, they laid on the floor for the final drying and combing.

The centrifuge all the dirt collected on the surface of the carpet and it combed straight wet.

This is what remains after washing. Now the carpet is dried and sent to the finished products warehouse

Prepared classical Armenian handmade carpets.

Their cost is about I outlined at the beginning of Lent - from 1 thousand dollars for a mat size of 1x1, 3 meters to 6-10 thousand for the Palace of 3x4 meters. Naturally an individual picture, or a particularly complex pattern increases the cost of the carpet (sometimes several times).

Examples of some ornaments

The final chord of our trip was a complete surprise. After passing through the warehouse, we saw ... right in the middle covered with woven carpets tables. Megerian also a restaurant carpet made at the factory!

And, the chef can prepare meals, even with you.

Naturally, on the background of the carpet)