The secret of Ningxia antique carpet
●As
the one of the best carpet in the world, ningxia antique carpets are called
“the king of China antique carpets”
●nobility---Ningxia antique carpet could be divided into two parts. one was
the carpets for temple and the other was for tribute for the royal family.
This is unique in China antique carpet. The pattern of temple carpets were
Buddhism veins, such as propitious cloud veins, warrior attendant’s stick
vein, wan vein, eight treasures veins, Buddhism pearl veins，Fu-dog veins etc..
The temple carpets included Banner rugs, Hanging rug, Buddhist carpet/Prayer
carpet, Curtain carpet and pillar carpet etc. Ningxia antique carpet as tribute
for the royal family was used for celebration, congratulations on birthday
and happy occasion, so the patterns contents focused on lucky flowers, lucky
grass and “Anbaxian” celestial beings veins, etc., Such as colorful butterflies
symbolizing longevity, Anbaxian celestial beings symbolizing outstanding talent
and group flower symbolizing happiness and reunion.
The early Ningxia carpe was often decorated with brocade patterns background,
which the various regular patterns covered the whole surface of the carpet
and these brocade patterns included words brocade, Hui veins brocade, flowers
leaves brocade, tortoise back brocade, etc.
The reason why the large quantity of yellow was used on Ningxia antique carpet
was that the carpets were used by imperial court and temples. In Ming and
Qing Dynasties, the color was limited to used strictly Yellow was used for
imperial court specially and red was only used for nobleman. In Tibet Buddhism,
the strongest “Huang Buddhism” used yellow, the hat on Lama’s head was yellow,
the top of the temple was yellow and decoration inside temple was also yellow,
wherein including carpets used in temple.
●the
best wool---in Ming and Qing Dynasties period of China, the aboriginal sheep
lived Alxa plateau located in northwest of Henlan mountain produced best wool
for carpet knotting with highly lustrous, large diameter, wavy wools. Ningxia
city Yin Chuan is isolated by one mountain with Alxa plateau was the strategic
passage form northwest to Zhongyuan area and it was also the center of carpet
trading. The wool of Alxa was called Ningxia wool and the carpet knotted with
this kind of wool was called Ningxia carpet. The Ningxia antique carpets were
made with high quality Ningxia wool containing rich downy contents. This kind
of carpet was soft with comfortable feel to be honored “downy carpet”.
●unique
technics---the color of Ningxia antique carpets were special including mainly
turmeric yellow, indigo blue and saffron red, etc. and these colors were dyed
with plant dyestuff.
Ningxia antique carpet were wool carpets with knots. The tufted fabric knot
was “∞” shape. This is unique technics of Ningxia carpet. Only the craftsman
with high level accomplishment and creative power could be allowed to weaved
Ningxia antique carpets.
●“Ningxia” antique carpet
There are a few ningxia antiques carpet now, in good condition’s carpet is
very rare. Some “Ningxia” antique carpets were made in zuoqi area (Inner-Mongolia).
●China
only genuine Ningxia antique carpets, only available in one place: China Antique
Carpet Collectoin.
The ningxia antique carpet with the good authority of us have been recognized
by authority of China.
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