Our Culture

The wool used in Royal Tibetan rugs is 100% highland Tibetian wool, the rarest and most durable wool. This wool comes from Tinetan sheep that are indigenous only to the high plateaus of the Himalayan Mountains. In such harsh climate, a sleep creates a wool fiber that is extra long, extremely durable and highly saturated with lanolin. The lanolin produces a natural strain resistance and keeps the wool from drying out over the years. It also creates a beautiful, rich patina as the dye soaks into the wool. It crestes a natural lustrous, yet soft and subtle variation in color.

After harvesting the wool is trekked by yaks over the Himalayan ranges and gently washed in the mountain streams, while carefully preserving the lanolin. The wool is then hand sorted to separated the white wool from the gray and black. It is then carded by hand, the fibers are gently combed and aligned, in order to prepare the wool for the hand spinning. This traditional technique requires a great length of time making the yarn uniquely textured and natural in appearance.

Craftsmen dye the wool by hand in samll lots using a metal pot to ensure the proper color absorption. These dyes are extremely colorfast and allow the creation of an unlimited color palette. Our master weavers then put their artistic talents to work and use the delicately processed wool to weave carpets of unparallel beauty. The carpets are hand-Knotted following a graph, at row on a metal rod and then cut to free the rod which exposes the pile. The carpets on the loom are then shredded with scissors to enhance the design elements. The rugs is then washed to give its final touch.