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Area Rugs |
Welcome to our site. Regardless of the purpose of their visit, people find lots of useful information here. Rugs and carpets have become essential elements of creating a cozy and pleasing interior. The site is completely dedicated to this subject. Hundreds of great articles covering all aspects of the subject of rugs are provided.
Among the great variety of area rugs one can find the finest and greatest collections of oriental and European rugs such as nourison rugs, samad, Persian, Indian, sheep skin area rugs and so on.
Exquisite handmade area rugs are produced and braided in such Asian countries as China, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Nepal.
The area rugs
produced in these countries represent a really genuine art of rugs weaving. Oriental area rugs embrace the whole world with their thousand years long history, thousand kilometers long spaces and hundreds of thousands craftsmen, connoisseurs and researches. The world of area rugs has no bounds and limits; this is why it is very difficult to write about it in several lines and some words.
Now, we’ll say some words about the history of area rugs. The first known area rugs came from Persia, Egypt and Turkey, the Caucasus and Middle Asia. Marco Polo has found several samples of area rugs dated by the 13th century while he traveled around Persia.
In several years area rugs gain more and more attention and popularity; they began to be much valued and appreciated. For some period of time area rugs were estimated even higher than money, they were used to pay duty and taxes.
As to the area rugs made in China and Tibet, they are full of Buddhism and Taoism’s symbols. Other area rugs have quite different symbols and symbolic meanings. |
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