Carpets

Carpet is a type of fabric in which, in accordance with the processing methods common throughout Eastern countries, one or more horizontal series of knots are added between one weft thread and another, consisting in short threads that are knotted at the warp to all emerge on the same side. The warp is almost completely hidden from the design on one side but remains visible if we turn the carpet over.

The most common types of knotting are the Ghiordes knot of Anatolian origin and the Senneh knot of Persian origin. The Ghiordes knot, also called the symmetrical knot, takes its name from the Turkish city of Ghiordes and has been used not only in Turkey but can also be found in use throughout the Caucasian area.

Once the weaving is complete, the threads are shaved and levelled off at a height that can vary from 4 to 12 mm, giving the work an overall uniformity and compactness. An interesting selection of the works created by the Arazzeria Scassa is thus a production of carpets that flanks the major part of the production, dedicated to tapestries.

In particular, Arazzeria Scassa collaborated with architect Renzo Piano, on the occasion of the exhibition Out of the Blue, held in 1997 at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn. A series of projects by the famous Italian architect were exhibited here and for the occasion, Piano commissioned Arazzeria Scassa to create a carpet and two tapestries. The idea was to enrich the exhibition by presenting not only significant drawings, projects and scale models but also something different – the transposition of the projects into woven fabrics.