Some carpets have variations or changes of colour – is this a problem?
Such variations of colour, usually found in bands across the width of a carpet, are not in any way a fault – on the contrary these colour changes are considered by collectors and decorators to add to an item’s character. In the producing countries, this change of colour is known as an abrash.Such abrash colour variations are generally found in nomadic and some village carpets, and it occurs when a weaver uses yarn dyed in a slighly different way, or dyed under different conditions, from the yarn used until then – the almost random variations within a single shade which occur because of this are one of the main reasons for the uniquely beautiful appearance of handmade carpets, for their indefinable magic. So colour abrash almost always adds character and individuality to a handmade carpet and serves to remind us of exotic environments in which nomadic and peasant carpets are knotted.
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