In ancient times floor rugs were an essential attribute of the rites and ceremonials’ conducting. Our way of life is inseparably linked with big floor rugs, rugs runners, door rugs, hearth rugs, prayer rugs weaved and produced out of sheep wool and dyed with natural and even synthetic paints.
The characteristic feature of classical floor rugs
is a closed composition with broad edgings around the periphery and central field.
Tracery on floor rugs can be different and belong to various spheres of our life: from traditional plant and animals motives to orient symbols of life.
May imported floor rugs have as the main tracery an ornament.
Solar signs on floor rugs in the shapes of simple circles, circles with beams and conventionalized stars, symbolize prosperity. Spiral signs mean water and oasis. The symbol of water on oriental floor rugs may be also represented by conventionalized images of ducks and so on.
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