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Social Responsibility:
Children-Education: We have also developed a system where we encourage weavers to send their children to school. Kandel Carpet Provides financial aid support by providing tuition fees for one child from each employee’s family.
HIV/AIDS Support: We are also supporting to HIV/AIDS victim by persons & organization.
We also arrange training to weavers for family planning, public health and other influence diseases.
Affliations:
Central Carpet Industry Association (CCIA): We are committed to promote and maintain the integrity of Tibetan-Nepalese Carpets exported from Nepal. By being a member of the Central Carpet Industry Association (CCIA) we seek to promote organized efforts for the progress of the carpet industry. We strive to maintain and ensure a sustained supply of raw materials for the benefit of carpet industries. Our efforts are also focused on tracking market potential of the Tibetan-Nepalese carpets.
Rugmark: Kandel Carpet is committed to ending child labor in the carpet industry and has teamed up with Rugmark in doing so. Rugmark is a global nonprofit organization working to end illegal child labor in the carpet industry and offer educational opportunities to children in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It does this through loom and factory monitoring, consumer labeling, and running schools for former child workers. (top) |
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| Story of the carpet... |
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Nepalese hand-knotted woolen carpet ranks 2nd in terms of overseas export. Carpet items exported from Nepal are coded under HS. Code 5701.10. The art of carpet weaving is an old tradition in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, especially in the mountainous region of the country. Radi, Pakhi, Bakkhu, Darhi are well-known products produced in this region.
The marketing of those products is confined only to the domestic market. The development of an export quality carpet was initiated with the influx of Tibetan refugees in the early sixties. The year 1960 can be regarded as the historic year for the commercial production of the carpet in the Kingdom of Nepal. In 1962, Nepal launched the commercial shipment of carpets with a sample consignment to Zurich, Switzerland. |
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Nepalese carpets are made of the highest quality fleece wool imported from Tibet, New Zealand and Britain. These carpets are available both in natural dyes and synthetic dyes with 60, 80 and 100 knots per square inch density. Specialized manufacturers may make even 120 knots per square inch density or more.
Nepalese carpets are of various size normally ranging from 16"X16" to 9 feet X 12 feet. Nepalese hand knotted woolen carpet is one of the major export products of unique qualities like texture, color combination, resiliency, strength and durability. Designs are large and bold on a single dominant background. These carpets can be used either on the floor or hung on the walls
The production process of Nepalese carpet includes:
1) Wool sorting and washing
2) Carding
3) Spinning
4) Dyeing
5) Knotting
6) Trimming
7) Washing and drying
8) Finishing
9) Packing
The price of the Nepalese carpet basically depends on its quality standard, size and design like other products.
Nepalese carpet industry is the backbone of Nepalese economy. It is the highest industrial employment generator, particularly to the rural people who are illiterate, as well as the major foreign hard currency earner.
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At present, around 95% of the production of carpet is concentrated in the Kathmandu valley and the rest is outside the valley.
The export of Nepalese Carpet has spread over 40 countries out of which, Germany, USA, Belgium, Britain, Turkey, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Canada and Italy are the leading export markets. Among these too, the first two are the biggest export markets. Germany alone absorbs more than 45% of the total carpet export. (top) |
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| Nepalese & Tibetan Carpets |
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The origins of Tibetan rug weaving, most likely evolved indigenously while Tibet lay high up in the plateaus isolated from most of the world. It began as an age-old tradition practiced primarily for home use but slowly evolved over the centuries. As the number of Tibetans living in Nepal has increased significantly since the 1950’s Nepal has shown a steady increase in the production and export of a new category of carpets now known as Tibetan-Nepalese Carpets.This evolving category of Tibetan-Nepalese carpets includes designs and colors frequently influenced from Tibetan and Nepalese culture. However, Tibetan-Nepalese carpets have been consistently innovating themselves to offer rich designs and colors seeking inspirations beyond Tibetan and Nepali borders. |
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Our designs at Kandel Carpet are created through a mixed influence of recognized free-lance designers as well as internal staff. Free-lance designers offer market insights on what designs might work for the market. While the managers access what’s new in the market, and what designs would sell. We often listen to our customers to gather information on what they seek from us and we focus our energy to provide designs and colors to satisfy their needs. Our design inspirations are drawn a variety of sources including nature, Tibetan and Nepali art, fashion and life; as carpets are part of an historic tradition and holds it’s own share of stories to tell.
We create designs through computer program also. (top) |
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Producing the quality carpet...
The basic materials required for the production are: loom, rod, knife, scissors, cotton yarn, woolen yarn, skilled manpower, experienced supervisor etc. In the same way, carding, dyeing, drying, spinning, pilling, weaving and finishing are also the major aspects of production.
1. Loom: It is a strongly built metallic frame used as the most important aid in the manufacture of the carpet. The loom is required to be strong. It can be made of different sizes as required. The size of the carpet is determined by the size of the loom.
2. Rod: It is known as ghipsi in typical Nepalese dialect. It is required to be made of stainless steel and should be straight so as to ease the work of the weavers. If the rod is up to the mark, then the weavers can work smoothly without any hindrance.
3. Knife: A knife is required for cutting and separating the yarn, which is pilled round the rod. The knife should always be sharp to ensure smooth cutting. Furthermore, the sharpness of the knife ensures smooth and even level of the upper surface and thickness of the carpet, and the weavers can also move their hands freely while weaving. If the knife is blunt, the yarn has to be cut again and again, and thus the upper surface of the carpet can be rough and uneven. This may lead to the minimization of the thickness of the carpet.
4. Scissors: The scissors are also required to be as sharp as the knife so that the weavers can work fast, smoothly and freely.
5. Cotton Yarn: Cotton yarn is the backbone of the carpet, so one should be soundly alert while choosing it. It is required to be strong and finely woven so as to ensure tight knots in the carpet. If the yarn is not strong and finely woven, then the weaver may have difficulty in weaving due to frequent snapping. It should be carefully noted that the lasting of the carpet depends on the strength of the cotton yarn.
6. Woolen yarn: It is the most important part of the carpet. The worth value of the carpet is determined by the quality of the woolen yarn. Therefore it is advisable for anyone to be considerably careful while choosing the yarn. Lack of knowledge of the quality of wool may lead to the depreciation of the value of the carpet. In the same way, compromise in the quality of the woolen yarn may also lead to sudden and unseen loss of labor and money. There are mainly two types of woolen yarn used in the manufacture of the Nepalese carpet: Tibetan wool and New Zealand wool. (top) |
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| Carpet Production Procedure |
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1. Carding is done mainly in two ways. One is the traditional method and the other is the improved technical method. As for the traditional method, the manpower is required to be proficient as each and every fiber should be minutely separated with the help of a particularly designed hand made machine. Although the method is trustworthy, it is slow and time consuming. Only a small quantity of fiber can be obtained and one may have to bear financial loss because a lot of the yarn can be wasted. So this method is not an economically beneficial one. |
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| The other method is the improved technical method. It is done with the help of a particularly designed machine. The yarn is first threshed in the machine and carefully stirred. It is to be noted that half blending is the better way of obtaining the desired result. In other words, the yarn should be not more than a handful so as to ensure that the yarn lump that comes out of the machine can be easily collected and is ideal for spinning. So we are always careful in this stage and perfectly follow the text-book steps of carding in order to procure quality in our product. |
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| 2. Spinning is required that the spool of the spinning wheel should be in the 0 point. It is necessary to check the point daily, or the yarn may come out to be of irregular size causing a lot of problems to the weaver. In the same way, the irregular size of the yarn may also cause a lot of defects in the quality of the carpet. |
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3. Dyeing, first of all, the mixture of colors is prepared and taken for a sample test. Sampling is repeated until the desired color is obtained. The dyer is required to have proper knowledge of the ratio and proportion of colors. For example, if 100 kg of the yarn is to be dyed, then 100 gm has to be sampled. In this way, the ratio comes to be 100 gm: 100kg. Similarly, a chart of the quantity of colors is prepared before the sample test. Thus, actual desired color is obtained. |
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| 4. Drying, the dyed yarn is dried as soon as possible. It is to be carefully noted that the carpet yarn is not be dried in the scorching sun, or the dye may be soon faded. The yarn is dried in the mild sun or in the shadowy area, which is airy. |
| 5. Pilling, this is another important step of carpet making. The yarn is taken of equal length from three different spinning wheels.In this way a lot of yarn is dumped along with the salvage. Therefore it is important that equal length of yarn should be pilled from the spinning wheels. |
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6. Carpet Weaving, before starting the weaving, a map is prepared in order to ensure the shape and size of the carpet. Then a good and strong quality of cotton yarn is chosen. After that, the number of knots is fixed and the woolen yarn made ready as per the number of knots. In the same way, the cotton yarn is set in the loom only after carefully knotting the yarn at the edges. The graphic map is strictly followed in order to ensure the shape and size of the carpet.The task of weaving is started only after carefully setting the cotton yarn in the loom. The cotton yarn set in the loom is known as dhuppa in the local language. |
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Thus after preparing the dhuppa, the woolen yarn is knotted in every dhuppa with the help of the stainless steel rod (Ghipsi) in which the woolen yarn is readily coiled. In this way a thick knot is made in the dhuppa, which is also known as the Tibetan knot.
A through checking of the design, cross and apras( the mode of problem that is resulted in the difference in color in one pattern of the yarn) is carefully done in the loom right from the beginning of carpet weaving. In this way the carpet's quality can be maintained |
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7. Finishing, this is an important step and is done in order to give the final look to the carpet. The unnecessary fibers are removed and knots appeared at the back surface of the carpet are maintained. After that, the front surface is brought to the level and the patterns made distinct and clear by carefully cutting the pattern edges. Thus the plane surface of the front portion of the carpet is maintained. After finishing this process, the carpet is thoroughly washed and the patterns separated. Then the process of stretching the carpet is done. |
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| In this step, the carpet is stretched from all sides and thus it comes to be in the proper shape. After finishing this step the carpet is leveled and numbered to ensure the actual size, quality and weight. (top) |
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