The oriental is known by the mass use of color, it is easy to notice that, in the various appearances of the oriental daily live, In the oriental world the use of color is an art, there is a natural love of the beauty, which has a great influence on their knotted rugs, those rugs show a fantastic harmony of color, with varied tints.
The main source from where the rug makers get their beautiful color is vegetable dyes,Which are obtained from the covering of the tree, fruits and blossoms. The blue oriental color which the rug makers have inspired it from the sky and sea colors has got an immense success which has turned it to the official color of other hand arts like pottery.
The red color is obtained from the roots of a southwest Asian plant called madder, in wool it looks like a blood red. Yellow is extracted from the berry fruit, which gives a light brown to brownish orange color; the larkspur plant gives a shiny color, the greenish color is obtained from a fungus of a mulberry. The orange is acquired from Henna; a flowering plant that has a wide range variety of use such as dying leather and wool, brown is obtained form the green color of the outer membranous covering the walnuts.
Many variables influence the density of color such as the temperature of water, the period of time that the wool needs to be exposure to air and the sun, there are other variables which depend on the qualities that the wool may posses.