Rugs and carpets of Orient

There are some three thousand rugs of this period in existence today. Most of them were found, not in Persia, but in the great houses of Europe where they were beyond the reach of the vandal hordes that from time to time surged across the Orient.

GARDEN   CARPETS
These are the rarest. The "Winter Carpet" of Chosroes was their celebrated ancestor. Their design is almost a maplike representa­tion of a garden, with rectangular flower beds, paths, trees and watercourses.