Name: PiHue Creations
Address: 25/344 Ramraipur, Bhadohi Nagar Palika, Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh, 221401, IN
Telephone: +91-80517-24365
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Abrash: Abrash is the deliberate or natural variation in dye colour across a rug, produced by using yarn from different dye lots or hand-dyed hanks — a signature of hand-dyed, hand-woven work rather than a defect.
Bamboo silk: Bamboo silk is a regenerated-cellulose viscose fibre spun from bamboo pulp with a silk-like sheen — a plant-derived material with the look of real silk at a gentler price.
Berber: Berber refers to a family of North African rug styles, typically hand-knotted or hand-loomed, with tribal geometric motifs on an ivory ground; Beni Ourain and Boujaad are two well-known Berber rug traditions.
Binding: Binding is the finishing stitch that seals the edges of a rug — over-serged, over-locked or hand-bound — keeping the perimeter from unravelling.
Border: Border is the framing band that surrounds the main design field of a traditional rug, usually a repeating motif such as boteh or floral trellis.
CAD (rug design): CAD in rug design is a digital drawing of the rug pattern converted into a knot map that weavers read at the loom.
Carding: Carding is the mechanical combing of raw fleece into aligned webs of fibre, removing debris and preparing the fibre for spinning into yarn.
Chain stitch: Chain stitch is an edge-finishing technique used on many flatweaves and dhurries, forming a loop-in-loop chain along the border.
Colorway: Colorway is a specific palette a rug design is produced in; the same design can be issued in multiple colorways, each specified against Pantone references or shade cards.
Cut pile: Cut pile is a construction where every pile knot or tuft is cut open at the top, producing a plush, uniform surface.
Dhurrie: Dhurrie is an Indian flatweave rug, traditionally woven from wool or cotton, without pile and typically reversible.
Field: Field is the central area of a traditional rug design, framed by the border, on which the main motif sits.
Flatweave: Flatweave is a rug construction with no pile — the design lives entirely in the interlaced warp and weft. Dhurries and kilims are the classic flatweaves.
Fringe: Fringe is the exposed ends of the warp threads at the top and bottom of a hand-knotted or hand-loomed rug — structural, not decorative.
GSM: GSM stands for grams per square metre — the weight of pile material per square metre of rug, the most objective single measure of how much material a rug contains.
Gabbeh: Gabbeh is a traditional tribal-style hand-knotted rug with bold geometric motifs and a thick, shaggy pile.
Hand-knotted: Hand-knotted describes a rug in which every knot is tied by hand around the warp threads on a loom — the most durable and valuable rug construction.
Hand-tufted: Hand-tufted describes a rug made by punching yarn through a stretched canvas with a tufting gun, then latexed and backed. Rich pile and detailed design at faster lead times than hand-knotted.
Handloom: Handloom describes a rug woven on a traditional loom, with pile inserted between rows of weft — a clean, refined construction without latex or backing.
Heat-set yarn: Heat-set yarn is synthetic yarn treated with heat to lock its twist — used mostly in machine-made carpets, not traditional handmade rugs.
Hank dyeing: Hank dyeing is the practice of dyeing loose skeins of yarn (hanks) rather than piece-dyeing a finished rug — the traditional and honest way to colour handmade rug yarn.
Jute: Jute is a rain-fed plant fibre grown in the Ganges delta, spun into a rustic yarn with visible slubs. Fully biodegradable and carbon-absorbing as a crop.
Kilim: Kilim is a traditional flatwoven rug from Turkey, Central Asia and Iran, produced with slit-weave or tapestry techniques.
Knot count (KPSI): Knot count, expressed as KPSI (knots per square inch), measures how many hand-tied knots fit in one square inch of a hand-knotted rug. Higher counts allow finer design detail.
Lab dip: Lab dip is a small dyed yarn sample produced in the dye house and sent to the buyer for approval, proving the exact colour before bulk dyeing begins. Turnaround is around 10 days.
Latexing: Latexing is the application of a controlled latex layer to the back of a hand-tufted rug, locking the tufts in place before a secondary backing is applied.
Loom: Loom is the frame on which a rug is woven — typically vertical for hand-knotted work, horizontal for many handloom constructions.
Loop pile: Loop pile is a construction where the pile yarn is looped rather than cut at the top — producing a more textural, matte surface.
Medallion: Medallion is a central ornamental motif in classical Persian and Oriental rug designs, often surrounded by corner spandrels.
Overtufting: Overtufting is inserting extra tufts of yarn on top of a woven surface to add height or accent detail.
PET yarn (recycled): PET yarn is polyester yarn made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate — typically post-consumer PET bottles. Certified under GRS.
Persian knot (Senneh): The Persian or Senneh knot is an asymmetric hand-tied knot where the yarn wraps around one warp and passes behind the other; allows finer detail than the Turkish knot.
Pile: Pile is the raised yarn surface of a rug that you walk on — created by knotting, tufting or inserting looped or cut yarn between rows of weft.
Pile height: Pile height is the length of the pile yarn from base to tip, typically 6–15 mm on handmade rugs.
Pitch: Pitch is the density of warp threads across the width of the rug, expressed as knots or warps per unit length.
Ply: Ply is the number of individual yarn strands twisted together to form the final rug yarn.
Pot dyeing: Pot dyeing is small-batch dyeing of individual yarn hanks in a single pot — the traditional approach for special colours and small runs.
Runner: Runner is a long, narrow rug typically used in hallways, kitchens or beside beds.
Selvedge: Selvedge is the vertical finished edge of a rug where the wefts turn back and the rug is bound — the equivalent of a hem on fabric.
Shearing: Shearing is the mechanical levelling of the pile to a uniform height as part of finishing.
Shedding: Shedding is the loss of loose surface fibre from a new wool rug in the first weeks to months of use — normal and self-limiting.
Shuttle: Shuttle is the wooden tool that carries weft yarn back and forth across the warp on a handloom.
Sisal: Sisal is a plant fibre from the agave plant, spun into a coarse durable yarn used mostly in flatweave rugs.
Space dyeing: Space dyeing is dyeing sections of a yarn hank in different colours so the finished yarn creates a mottled pile.
Strike-off: Strike-off is a physical rug sample produced from an approved CAD, sent to the buyer for approval before bulk production — typically 15 days.
Stretching: Stretching is the finishing step of pinning and pulling a washed rug to true its shape to the specified dimensions.
TPX/TCX (Pantone): TPX and TCX are the Pantone colour reference codes used for textiles (TPX printed, TCX cotton). Rug yarn is dyed to match a given TPX or TCX reference through lab dips.
Tencel: Tencel is a lyocell fibre made from wood pulp (typically eucalyptus), with a silk-like sheen and low environmental impact production process.
Tibetan knot: The Tibetan knot is tied around a rod inserted horizontally on the warp; when the rod is pulled out the loops open, producing a distinctive pile.
Tufting gun: Tufting gun is the hand-held tool used to punch yarn through the canvas backing in hand-tufted rug construction.
Turkish knot (Ghiordes): The Turkish or Ghiordes knot is a symmetric hand-tied knot that wraps around two warp threads — more robust than the Persian knot at lower knot counts.
Viscose: Viscose is a regenerated-cellulose fibre spun from wood pulp or bamboo pulp, with a silk-like sheen. Sensitive to moisture.
Warp: Warp is the set of parallel threads strung vertically on the loom, around which knots are tied or through which wefts are woven.
Weft: Weft is the yarn that runs horizontally across the loom, interlacing with the warp and bedding each row of knots or forming the flatweave surface.
Wool (NZ vs Indian): New Zealand wool is longer-staple, whiter and finer, ideal for pastel palettes and whites; Indian wool is shorter-staple, springier and more resilient, ideal for body and value. Many qualities blend both deliberately.
Yarn count: Yarn count is the specification of a yarn's thickness, expressed in various count systems depending on the fibre — a higher count typically means a finer yarn.

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