Method for making a handcrafted pile rug and the resulting product

A method of making handcrafted pile rugs comprising

• (a) mounting a backing fabric in an outstretched condition,
• (b) positioning across the outstretched backing fabric an elongate pile forming guide having a series of spaced upstanding teethlike projections,
• (c) looping a pile yarn around one of the upstanding projections of the pile forming guide and then passing the yarn through the backing fabric and forming a knot to thus form a pile loop secured to the backing fabric,
• (d) repeating step (c) at successive spaced locations along the elongate pile forming guide until a row of pile loops has been formed across the backing fabric, and the step of passing the yarn through the fabric and forming a knot comprising penetrating the backing fabric with the yarn at four closely spaced locations:
• first downwardly and then upwardly through the fabric, then downwardly while forming a loop on the upper surface of the fabric between the second and third locations where the yarn penetrates the fabric, then passing the yarn upwardly through the fabric at a fourth location and directing the yarn under the loop formed on the upper surface of the fabric, and then pulling the yarn tight to form a knot,
• (e) removing the guide from the thus formed row of pile loops,
• (f) repositioning the guide alongside the previously formed row of pile loops, and
• (g) repeating steps (c) and (d) to form another row of pile loops alongside the previously formed row.