A process and a device for the manufacture of a carpet with knotted stitches, in which loops of velvet are knotted around at least one warp yarn (1, 2), each loop being knotted by means of a knotting gripper (49) around at least a first warp yarn.

Carpet knotting is thought to have started some 3,500 years ago in Central Asia, a crossroads for many civilizations.

With knotted pile carpets, the structural weft threads will alternate with a supplementary weft that will rise from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular angle.

Knotted pile With knotted pile carpets, the structural weft threads will alternate with a supplementary weft that will rise from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular angle.

It was largely the Turkish people and related groups from Central Asia who introduced the knotted pile carpet to the Islamic world.

The Beauvais manufactory, better known for their tapestry, also made knotted pile carpets from 1780 to 1792.

The Beauvais manufactory, better known for their tapestry, also made knotted pile carpets from 1780 to 1792.

The tradition of knotted pile rugs was brought to western Canada by the Doukhobors in the late 19th century when they emigrated from Russia to escape religious persecution.

The oldest surviving pile carpet - discovered in 1947 in the Altai mountains of Siberia and now exhibited at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg - has been carbon-dated to have been from the fifth century b.c.