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From all the world, the carpet is generally divided into two major types: the modern machine made carpet and the Oriental hand woven carpet. The art of handmade carpet weaving attains the peak from the 16th to 18th century, meanwhile appearing the very strong region characteristic. Up to the 18th century, the machine made carpet came into being. A great many carpets of the same pattern can be made by machine in very short time. However, machine-made carpets can not compare beauty with the hand woven carpets; it is not so valuable.

The Oriental carpets can be divided by the produce area into Chinese carpets ( including Henan silk carpets, Xinjiang carpets and Tibetan carpets) and Persian carpets. Combined with the traditional Chinese patterns and Persian patterns after a long period of time, a modern style of handicraft carpet is produced; that is Henan silk carpets which have accounted for half of the global production. Up to now, with a history of thousands of years and created by several peoples, the Chinese carpets have a wide and profound influence to Asia and the whole world for its deep culture , superb manufacture craft and consummate art attainment.

The Chinese carpets, especially Henan silk carpets, have already surmounted Iranian and Indian silk carpets not only in quantity but also in quality. Being subjected to various factors, Iranian silk carpets could not walk out of the old frame of the lockstep and encountered disadvantageous export situation. With the characteristic of copy of Persia and China, Indian carpets lack its own special style and innovation, so have no larger improvement up to now.

Henan Silk Carpets
Henan has already become well-known place for silk carpet production in the world and its production accounts for 80% of the world annually, and exceeds on the quality Iran known as the carpet king's title of world. The patterns of Henan carpet amounts to more than 450 kinds. In according to the composition, vein and color it holds five kinds of styles: Persia type, Beijing type, art type, colorful type, plain and ancient type. With the numerous patterns, special style and well chosen material, the quality of Henan carpet is tight and resilient, having clear vein and innovational designs, which results in a deeply welcome by the clients home and abroad.

Xinjiang carpets
The raw material of Xinjiang carpet is HeTian wool. This kind of wool is thick but not adhensive, tough and resilient but rich in flexibility, having good luster. The pattern and colors of Xinjiang carpet have fresh and clear folk characteristics and heavy local colors. Its main pattern is using many layer frames, filled with various vein; the structure is strict but balanced, brisk and lifelike. As for the color, most is the appositions of the same colors or the contrast, well showing the character of various color in the contrast.

Tibetan Carpets
The wool of Tibet is thick and hard but flexible, fit for making the carpet very much. The most well-known Tibetan carpet is Jiangzhi carpet which already has the history of more than 600 years. Jiangzhi carpet is close knitted and durable, the veins full of folk tradition and the color is fresh and brilliant.
Jiangzhi carpet is also called Jiangzhi Ka mat, of which, the area of more than 18 square foots, being generally called the carpet; those smaller be called Ka mat. Jiangzahi carpets come from GaXi of GangBa county and later spread to the whole area from Jiangzhi.

Persian Carpets
Persian carpets emphasizes hand weaving. It is said that to weave a piece of Persian carpet, the artisan must start learning at the age of seven or eight and grasp the skill until the marriage age. According to the numbers of knots per square feet and the specifications, it usually takes 14 to18 months to finish a piece of Persian carpet.