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MOOD INDIGO: A ZEBRA PRINT CARPET OF A DIFFERENT STRIPE

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New York, NY, March, 2012 -- Artist and Founder of Carini Lang Joseph Carini is world famous for his animal print carpets, and with good reason. He studies the animals’ markings in great detail, then imbues the spirit of “aliveness” of the animal into the design, sometimes interpreted in high color. His latest, ZEBRA INDIGO, is handcrafted from pure, natural Imperial silk that is hand spun and hand knotted. The stripes are rendered in silk that has been small batch dyed in rare natural botanical indigo. Genuine indigo is not commonly used today to color textiles, as it is scarce and costly, but, as Joe Carini points out, “nothing makes as clear and beautiful a blue as real indigo.” Zebra Indigo measures 6’ x 9’ and may also be custom ordered in any size through the Carini Lang showroom, 335 Greenwich Street in New York’s trendy TriBeCa neighborhood. www.carinilang.com

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The use of genuine botanical indigo dye is very rare today. Most blue jeans and other
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Carini Lang uses pure Imperial Silk, a garment grade silk. They hand spin it on old fashioned spinning wheels to a 40-ply yarn, and then small batch dye it outside in the clear sunlight of the Himalayas. Then it is hand-knotted at a painstaking 100 knots per inch or more, using a complex Tibetan knot structure that makes the carpets silky soft yet extremely durable. Each carpet can take up to four months to produce.
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