Rug weaving: history

area rugs

A few fragments have been found in Egyptian tombs that were sealed centuries before the birth of Christ. Others have been excavated in Turkestan, probably dating from the early Christian Era.

Scholars agree that the art of weaving goes back to the very beginnings of man's civilization.

But we will leave the scholars to their research, because here, as a Fortune writer once said, "is a body of erudition into which the specialist can disappear from the vulgar eye like a porpoise plumping into a bed of kelp.

There never was so deep a sea of learning."