About Polish rugs

A copy of an order from the King of Poland for "silken carpets from Kashan," shows that many of them were woven especially for foreign trade, or as gifts to European rulers.

The patterns are delicate and lacy. They are woven with a combination of a silk pile and a flat tapestry weave in gold and silver.

Thin strips of these precious metals—so pure that they haven't tarnished in three hundred years—are wound about strands of silk to make the thread.

The colors are heavenly—salm­on, turquoise, honey, mauve, cream, violet and almond green