Intro to rug weaving

Wool Area Rugs

To put the whole history of such an ancient and important art as carpet weaving into a few short chapters is not easy.

But it is a romantic story, for you suddenly find yourself in the fabled lands of the Arabian Nights.

"The Golden Road to Samarkand" winds through it. You are in "cool silent gardens of Ispahan" and the flower-strewn fields of Kirman, in the Alhambra, the court­yards of China, and Queen Elizabeth's great audience hall.

No one knows when or where the first pile fabric was knotted. Probably its inspiration was an animal's skin, and our enterpris­ing ancestor was trying to concoct with his own fingers some­thing as warm, as pliable and as strong.