# Are Persian Carpets Woven With Jute? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 29, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-persian-carpets-woven-with-jute/620312 "2012-04-29T13:06:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-persian-carpets-woven-with-jute/620312/1 "2012-04-29T13:06:06Z")
I remember seeing some for sale…at the now-gone “Sharper Image”. They were very nice-I almost bought some. Jute is a very soft fiber-almost like silk. Anybody know if these carpets are still made? The ones I remember seeing looked like standard Persian carpets. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-persian-carpets-woven-with-jute/620312/2 "2012-04-29T13:14:30Z")
[Judge Chamberlain Haller] Uh… did you say _jutes_? I always thought of jute as a bit coarse and fibrous. I can imagine it being used as the backing weave, but the plush itself? Then again, my experience with jute may be limited… a simple _persian rug jute_ search on Google turns up scores of hits. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-persian-carpets-woven-with-jute/620312/3 "2012-04-29T15:17:16Z")
Many odd fibers can turn out to be quite lovely when processed properly. Jute can be coarse [think burlap] but many long fibre vegetable fibers can be very silky when processed in such a manner. Look at linen - the egyptians could spin and weave a linen fabric that a whole garment could purportedly be passed through a finger ring. Bamboo is currently popular, I have a t-shirt that is very similar to silk. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-persian-carpets-woven-with-jute/620312/4 "2012-04-29T15:37:11Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Many odd fibers can turn out to be quite lovely when processed properly. Jute can be coarse [think burlap] but many long fibre vegetable fibers can be very silky when processed in such a manner. Look at linen - the egyptians could spin and weave a linen fabric that a whole garment could purportedly be passed through a finger ring. Bamboo is currently popular, I have a t-shirt that is very similar to silk. Hey, jute don’t make it bad you take a coarse cloth, and make it better remember, you’ll let it next to your skin so you must begin to make it better … ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-persian-carpets-woven-with-jute/620312/5 "2012-04-29T16:06:46Z")
> [@yabob](#): > > Hey, jute don’t make it bad > you take a coarse cloth, and make it better > remember, you’ll let it next to your skin > so you must begin > to make it better … Naaaa, naa naaa na-na-na-naaaaa, na-na-na-naaaaaa, heyyy Jute… ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-persian-carpets-woven-with-jute/620312/6 "2012-04-29T18:42:16Z")
Jute mostly comes from South to Southeast Asia. Bangladesh is the #1 exporter of jute; I’d look for carpets from there. I have a few rather nice jute carpets, which I bought there for about a tenth of what they might fetch in the States. (I also had a local to negotiate the price for me, which was probably the biggest help).