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“Dear Leevery Han, We have returned from a short holiday, and have received the carpets. They are perfect and we are very pleased. Thank you. It is a pleasure to do business with you. We are British and live in France, so should you visit France and are passing anytime and need a place to stay you are welcome. We live 100 miles from Paris, near Rouen. Kind Regards to you and your family”.
                                                                  Anthony and Anna Parker 

The above is a letter from one of our Europe customers. “Best Quality and Best Service” is Yilong’s principle. Yilong will do much better in the future and try our best to meet customer’s requirement. We hope Yilong’s super fine quality handmade carpet will bring new felling to every consumer in the world.                                                                            (Reported by Amy) 

On April 3, 2008, Yilong’s 86pcs silk rug was packed into 18 bales and sent to Qingdao port. This shipment will leave Qingdao port for Tripoli, Libya on April 9, 2008. This is Yilong’s third shipment to Africa this year. Till now, Yilong has four customers in Africa. Yilong’s fine quality silk rug was exported to Libya, South Africa etc successfully.

Yilong’s traditional market is America,Europe and Middest-East. Yilong’s handmade Persian silk rug has a good name in these rich countries. But, as the new market recent year, the Africa market has grown bigger and bigger. From last year, Yilong decided to develop Africa market. After our effort of one year, Yilong entered Africa market successfully. We wish more and more rich family in Africa can enjoy yilong’s high quality handmade silk rugs in the future.

(Reported By Amy)

On March 28, 2008, the export encouragement meeting was held in the third meeting room of Zhengzhou government mansion. The biggest twenty export enterprise got prize from Zhengzhou government. As the biggest silk carpet export enterprise in Henan, Yilong won a prize for her excellent carpet export work in the financial year 2007.In year 2007, Yilong exported silk carpet usd11,649,000 to 35 countries in the world. In this meeting, Yilong got bonus usd11649 from government.

From March 11^th to 13^th, the Domotex Asia Fair consulted in Shanghai. Yilong Carpet Company took part in this fair, and I, as a staff of Yilong Carpet Company, feel much honored to take part in  this fair.

We arrived in Shanghai on March 10^th.On this day, we stay in the exhibition and laid our booth. The layout of booth is very important, not only does it reflect a company’s image, but also achieve the purpose of attracting customers.

On March 11^th, the first day of the exhibition, many foreign carpet buyers came to this fair. Our carpets gain a good opinion by many customers, and the sales volume exceed 10000 square feet on this day.

In the next two days, we also made notable achievements.

We will continue to produce good quality products to meet customers’ requirements.

On Jan.4, 2008, Mr. Muhammad who is a carpet dealer in Dubai visited Yilong carpet factory. Our vice sales manager Mr. Ma accompany Muhammad to check our carpet warehouse. This customer was very interested in our handmade silk carpet and artificial silk carpet. They plan to market our carpet in Middle-East area.
 

On Nov. 15, 2007, our staff of sales department took part in the public train from Global Sources in Holiday Inn Hotel in Zhengzhou city. Yilong Carpet is the signed customer of Global Sources now. Our sales amount must increased much through the promotion of Global Sources. Now, Yilong’s main export product is silk rug, artificial silk rug and aubusson etc. We sell our handmade rug to more than 30 countries in the world.

                                                               (Report: Ms Amy Yu)

China Persian silk rug? The size is 30ft x 30ft? Yes, it is true!

In this month, Yilong Carpet completed one piece size 30ft x 30ft silk rug. It is the biggest size handmade silk rug in the world. It took our 8 weavers 24 months to complete this huge work.

After the success of this piece, from then on, we can accept more big size order even to size 30×45.

If your palace need 100% handmade huge size silk rug, please fell free to connect with Yilong Carpet! We can produce size 30×30, size 30×45. We can meet your special requirement in size!

Is Your Silk Rug Made of Real Silk?
We don’t mean to be alarmist, but we sometimes see “silk rugs” that are made of something other than genuine, natural silk. This is not a problem if you know that the rug you are considering is made of artificial silk, but sometimes rug dealers neglect to pass on this information! The problem happens most often with just a few rug types sold in tourist markets in Turkey and India (and sometimes in Pakistan).
Real Silk
Real silk is produced as the cocoon covering of the silkworm, the pupal form of the Asian or mulberry silk moth, bombyx mori. The cocoon is spun by the silk moth caterpillar of a single silk fiber that can be up to several thousand feet in length. To harvest the silk, completed cocoons are boiled or heated to kill the silkworms, then laboriously unwound into single fibers which are plied together and spun into thread or silk yarn.

Natural silk is a fibrous protein composed of a number of amino acids: glycine (44.5%), alanine (29.3%), serine (12.1%), valine (2.2%), tyrosine(5.2%), glutamic acid (1%), others less than 1% each. Chemically, natural silk is C15H23O6N5 (we give the formula in case you want to whip up a batch of your own). Silk is extremely high in tensile strength, exceeding that of nylon. It has been estimated that if a single silk fiber with the diameter of a pencil could be produced, the fiber could lift a 747 aircraft (who figures these things out, anyway?). Silk is used to make Oriental rugs because dyed silk is a fiber with rich, saturated colors, and a distinctive, almost translucent luster.
Artificial Silk
Artificial silk is everything billed as silk that doesn’t come from the silkworm cocoon. Most often this means mercerized cotton; sometimes it means a manufactured fiber like rayon or a blend of chemically altered and/or manufactured fibers. It’s not that artificial silk is intrinsically evil, it’s just that the whole point of using artificial silk in a rug is to save the cost of real silk. It is not nice when this cheaper, artificial silk rug is misrepresented and sold for the price of a real silk rugs.
Mercerized cotton
A ripening cotton boll can contain as many as 5,000 separate cotton fibers, each fiber growing from a tiny seed and formed as a hollow cylindrical sheath of as many as thirty layers of almost pure cellulose. Cotton fiber is mercerized by being stretched under controlled tension at room temperature while being treated with a 21%-23% solution of caustic soda (NaOH). The effect is to swell the fiber and make its surface much more reflective, thus dramatically increasing its luster (and also its tensile strength). After the chemical treatment, cotton yarn is often singed to remove whatever small amount of fuzz remains on the surface of the fibers. Sometimes cotton is calendered by being passed between heated rollers. The effect is to increase the luster and sheen of the fiber still more. However it is treated, cotton remains cellulose: C6H10O5.
Rayon
Like cotton, rayon is made of almost pure celulose, but rather than being grown, rayon is produced by first dissolving cellulose (obtained from cotton or woodpulp) to produce a thick yellow liquid called viscose. The viscose is extruded through tiny holes into a chemical bath that produces long filaments which can be spun into thread and yarn. Viscouse rayon was the first man-made fiber. In 1920, DuPont bought from the French the technology for making viscose rayon. DuPont first called the material “artificial silk”, and formed a company (The DuPont Fibersilk Company) to manufacture it. Other artificial fibers would follow quickly: acetate (also derived from cellulose) in 1924, nylon, (commonly, adipic acid reacted with hexamethylene diamine) in 1939, acrylic (from acrylonitrile, a petrochemical) in 1950, polyester in 1953, and triacetate in 1954.
How to Identify A Real Silk Rugs 
With all these artificial fibers around, how can you identify a rug woven with natural silk?
First of all, pay attention to whatever clues the dealer–or the rug–gives you. For instance, we have seen many artificial silk Kayseri rugs (and some Hereke rugs), both Turkish types. In Turkey, a real silk Kayseri is an ipek Kayseri: ipek is “silk” in Turkish. An artificial silk Kayseri is a flos Kayseri ( a yun Kayseri has a wool pile). The dealer might be accurately describing the piece to you as a flos rug, but by not explaining the difference between flos and ipek, he lets you jump to the intended assumption, and you unwittingly buy an artificial silk rug. Indian rug dealers are seldom as delicately circumspect as some of their Turkish counterparts. Artificial silk rugs in India are often blatantly sold as real silk, complete with certificates of authenticity and written guarantees. For many years Kashmir in northern India has been the major source for both real and artificial silk Indian rugs. Look carefully at the “silk” rug: it should be tightly woven (with more than 200 knots per sq. in., and often with 500 or more knots), intricately detailed, closely clipped, and it should have real silk fringe that is clearly an extension of the rug’s structure, not sewn on or sewn into the ends of the rug. Artificial silk rugs often have only medium weaves (less than 250 knots per sq. in., and sometimes less than 150 knots per in.), and often have cotton fringe. Good quality real silk rugs always have real silk fringe. In Pakistan we often see rugs called jaldars. These wool pile rugs often have “silk touch,” meaning that there is artificial silk inlay in the pile (often outlining part of the design). This artificial silk is almost invariably ivory in color, and is made of mercerized cotton.
Tests for Silk rugs
OK, you’re looking at a nicely woven, nicely patterned, closely clipped “silk” rug with what appears to be real silk fringe. You still might be looking at a rug made of artificial silk. Here are three field tests that might help you distinguish real from fake. No guarantee; your mileage may vary.
Rub it! It is sometimes claimed that you can tell real silk from artificial silk by vigorously rubbing the pile with your open palm. The real silk rug feels warm, the artificial silk rug stays cool to the touch. We sometimes think we have felt this difference. Of course, it helps to have a real silk rug with you so that you can compare a known quantity!
Burn it! This test is at least good theatre, and actually can be helpful. Clip off a small piece of the fringe, or pull a knot out of the rug from the back (why should the owner object?). Burn it. Look at the ash and smell the smoke. If the material was cellulose (rayon), the ash should be soft and chalky, and the smell should be like burning paper (most paper is made of cellulose). If the sample is real silk, the burning sample should ball to a black, crispy ash, and the smell should be of burning hair (you’re burning protein, the same stuff your hair is made of). You’ve got to be a little careful with this test to avoid smelling the smoke from the match (and to avoid igniting yourself or the rug dealer’s shop).
Dissolve it! The most accurate test is one that chemically differentiates protein from cellulose or petrochemicals. One such test: at room temperature, mix a solution of 16 g copper sulfate (CuSO4) in 150 cc of water. Add 8-10 g glycerine, then caustic soda (sodium hydroxide: NaOH) until a clear solution is obtained. This solution will dissolve a small sample of natural silk, but will leave cotton, rayon, and nylon unchanged.          

From October 2nd to 12th in 2007, as a member of Zhengzhou Economy and Trade Delegation, Yilong Carpet Company’s promotion team have visited the European countries France, Italy and Switzerland.

As a leading handmade carpet manufacturer, Yilong’s silk carpet, artificial silk carpet and aubusson carpet were very popular in Europe.

Our promotion team visited European city Rome, Venice, Firenze, Geneva, Zurich, Nice and Paris. In each city, we inspected the handmade carpet market carefully, and visited our old customers, and developed new customers.

We have participated in business activities of delegation, and have visited some famous sites. We achieved good results in this Europe trip.

Oct. 1, 2007, is 58 anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and also is 58 anniversary of Henan Yilong Carpet Company Limited. All staffs of Yilong Carpet Company celebrate this festival.

With 58 years development, Yilong Carpet has become a professional carpet manufacturer in China, and Yilong’s products have been sold to more than 30 countries in the world. The “high quality and best price” of our products won the praise of our customers.

Henan Yilong Carpet Company Limited will do our best to produce high quality products to meet customers’ requirement.

(Notice: We will have a holiday from Oct .1, 2007 to Oct .10, 2007 for the China National Day)