PAKISTAN > KAZAKS

Pakistan dominated the carpet market for many years producing high quality Bokhara rugs (elephant foot pattern) with over 14,000,000 looms producing this quality rug. Pakistan has also attracted many Turkoman refugees from Iran, Afghanistan and the Caucasus’s with the unrest in these regions. This has led to a huge change in the carpet production in this country. Pakistan is the foremost producer of hand-spun vegetable dye rugs, Kazaks and very fine decorative carpets utilising New Zealand wool due to their commonwealth connections.

We take two qualities in our Kazak rugs.  Firstly both use hand-spun yarns and vegetable dye colours. We do a 9x9 knots per square inch quality which although a low knot count is more than compensated for by the chunkiness of the hand-spun yarns which means the knots pack in very well giving a hardy rug at a great price. The finer Kazaks have a 12x12 count which makes for a beautiful and lustrous carpet. Kazaks are one of the earliest known rugs, used by the 16th Century Dutch painter Holbein in many of his pictures as table rugs.