Jaipur Rug

Jaipur Rug
General information
Name	Jaipur Rug
Original name	فرش جیپور، قالی جیپور
Alternative name(s)	Jaipur Carpet
Origin	India
Technical information

Jaipur Rug or Jaipur Carpet is one of the eastern rugs that woven in India.
A city of northern central India in the wool-producing province of Rajasthan. Rug weaving in prisons began in Jaipur in the middle of the nineteenth century. These rugs were copies of Mughal designs. Carpets are woven with single or double wefts, with single-wefted rugs of a finer weave. Contemporary carpets have asymmetric knots on a cotton foundation. The finer variety have a knot density of about 200 knots per square inch and are copies of other Near Eastern designs. The collection of the Jaipur Palace Museum includes many fine Mughal carpets.