Yarn for Rugs

For some years now, Rajasthan and Bikaneri Chokla Wool has been developed with sheep being bred with carpet wool production in mind. The result is a strong, lustrous wool well suited for making rugs. Sometimes, this Chockla wool is blended with New Zealand or Argentine wool. Either way, the results are long staple wools with soft silky touch.

The wool is combed, (sometimes blended) and spun into thread and yarn that is then dyed to exacting specifications. There are large automated processes and smaller hand worked batches. Most of us would have a hard time telling the difference in the end product.

A pretty large batch of wool in the dye process.

Not as large but still considered large batch.

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Now we're getting into small batch dyeing.
The yarn is rotated into the hot dye.

This batch was almost finished.

He clipped off a small piece and dried it in front of an ordinary space heater to compare with the master sample.

A small piece is kept for batch number reference.

Next stop will be the warehouse

where each bundle is cataloged

and stored for a future rug.