An Overview of Traditional Rugs
The range of rugs that belong to the category of traditional is very huge. but more often, the rugs mentioned as traditional are oriental rugs from Persia and India, where they continue to be created for the last 2,500 years. The Oriental includes large geographical area of Asia including India and Turkey. Traditional rugs in the area have been made with very different techniques, materials and designs, but they have one thing in common: they are probably the most prehistoric and precursors of almost any other type of traditional rug. Artisans who make carpets in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Europe, especially in France, Greece and Spain and even in America, have been influenced by oriental rugs. Traditional rugs from anywhere in the world are characterized by handmade knots made of natural materials including wool, silk and cotton and dyed manually with natural dyes. Today's information about the traditional rugs that exist in the world has is collected from paintings and...