Welcome to the home of Warped and Wefted! This web site is, of course, primarily to aid in the sale of carpets and other artefacts, but also serves to disseminate information about these carpets, and carpet making. And many, although not all by any means, of the carpets and artefacts displayed for sale here are seen ‘publicly’ for the first time, as they come from private collections that were established in the 1970’s and early 80’s. We ourselves bought our very first Tibetan carpet in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1971*, and the same year began selling them and other Asian art through a small shop in what was then a very small town called Byron Bay in Australia. We continued selling to the public through this shop until 1976 when we left Australia to travel on paths seldom taken, often in regions seldom visited (by foreigners), living in various parts of Asia and the Americas for the next ten years. As life on the road necessitated, we continued our business on a personal / private basis as we roamed the world in search of those rare, and often illusive, treasured pieces. A lifetime then seemed to pass, well did pass, with varied activities in-between, and after retiring from those other pursuits circa 2015 we again began selling to the public which resulted in this website. (*At the time Tibetan carpets made in Nepal were made by actual Tibetan refugees – https://warpandweft.club/tibetan-carpet-weaving-photos/ – as opposed to today where they are made predominately by Nepali’s.)
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Our very first ‘Tibetan’ carpet, purchased in Kathmandu in 1971, is still with us to this day.
We hope then that this website, beside showcasing many unique and exceptional pieces, also serves to disseminate information with regards reference material and various other carpet related topics. And on that note, and of particular import in this age of ‘anything goes’, especially when it comes to what ‘sells’ an item, for those that have trouble discerning what constitutes a genuine Tibetan woven carpet, there is this page; https://warpandweft.club/knotting-comparisons/
And by the way, we work in the metric system, except for all the photo’s displaying the knot count of carpets which throughout this site is a one square inch image bordered in either grey or black metal. So for those that don’t use metric, and want to convert measurements, then 1 inch = 2.54 centimetres, and there are 100 centimetres in a metre – and hence there are 15.5 square inches in one square decimetre (i.e. one tenth of one square metre) for those that want their knot count in the European ‘square decimetre’ fashion.
Hopefully you, dear visitors, will enjoy what is displayed throughout the site as much as we do. Tashi Delek!
