Carpet weaving is an old art form of Pakistan and involved thousands of skilled man power throughout country. A massive rural population is associated with this cottage industry. Pakistani carpet and rugs have Irani, Afghani and mughal traditional touch the craftsmanship of Pakistani carpet reflect their ancient culture when they came from Iran Afghanistan and Samarkand Bukhara they were used to of the finest hand knitted quilt for wall and floor decoration.
The mughal dynasty when the last successor of Babar extended his rule from Kabul to India to found the mughal empire in the early 16th century then carpet weaving started under the patronage of the mughal when Indian craftsmen adopted Persian techniques and designs. The carpet woven in Punjab at that time often called Lahore carpet the weaving form of art had motifs and the decorative style started from the mughal architecture.
In Pakistan the carpet cottage industry is a valuable source of trade creating employment and generating handsome amount of foreign exchange for country while there is no need of high cost infrastructure it is easy to establish in small place with a wooden loom hundreds of families having their own wooden loom at their house and whole family involve in this job earning reasonable amount for their lively hood.
It is also an advantage in rural areas that the raw material is easily available for making carpet, rugs and mats usually all these form of raw material produced in surroundings some believe that using natural fibers such as wool [most common in oriental rugs] silk and goat or camel hair provide many advantages.
Wool as an example is often praised for its durability and its ability to maintain the rugs strength and beauty some common synthetic fibers used to produce rugs include poly propylene nylon, polyester acrylic and cotton and some rugs use a blend of these fibers.
Synthetic rugs are often more affordable than rugs made of natural thread and dome find the higher level of stain resistance synthetic rugs an added benefit the woolen carpet and rugs are export items added huge volume of foreign exchange and earn good name for Pakistan.
