| Oriental rugs are like gold. By making them | | | | areas they come from. Main ones are Central |
| part of your home you in effect make your | | | | Persian, Eastern Persian, Northwest Persian, |
| home part of long rich cultural traditions. | | | | Southern Persian, Southwestern Persian, and |
| Authentic Oriental rugs are hand made using | | | | Western Persian. Persian rugs can also be |
| looms according to time honored craft | | | | dived according to the type of peoples or |
| traditions in Central Asia and Middle East. | | | | tribes the rugs were made by. Rugs made by |
| First Oriental rugs were made as long ago as | | | | nomadic tribes would be smaller since they |
| 3000 BC. | | | | use smaller more portable looms. They also |
| | | | tend have bolder colors. Floor rugs made in |
| This is made with silk and wool fibers. High | | | | cities or villages tend to be larger. In |
| quality floor rugs will have higher knot | | | | Persia rug making became an industry shortly |
| density (knots for square inch) than low | | | | after first ones were made and people were |
| quality ones. A very good quality area rug | | | | employed by workshops for the making rugs |
| will have about five hundred to thousand | | | | especially for selling. Most floor rugs made |
| knots per square inch. | | | | in cities comes from such ancient workshops. |
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| There are three main traditions or styles in | | | | Turkey was known as Anatolia and as such |
| Oriental rug making. They are Caucasian, | | | | these Oriental rugs are commonly called |
| Persian, and Turkish. | | | | Anatolian rugs. They are divided into three |
| | | | subcategories Central, Eastern, and Western. |
| Caucasian Oriental rugs have bright geometric | | | | |
| patterns and come from the countries in the | | | | Good quality Oriental rugs will last a long |
| Caucasian mountains. New rugs from this | | | | time. In fact it will last for several |
| region are rare these days because the | | | | generations if properly cared for. However |
| tradition has almost died away in the region. | | | | avoid putting such area rugs in places where |
| Best rugs from this region were made in late | | | | the foot traffic is heavy. Especially avoid |
| 19th century. There are several sub types of | | | | places where they will be trodden on by dirty |
| Caucasian rugs categorized according to their | | | | shoes. Remember in the countries where they |
| place of origin. They are Baku, Dagestan, | | | | make these rugs people used to take off their |
| Gendje, Karabagh, Kazak, Shirvan, and Talish, | | | | shoes when entering a house. |
| rugs. | | | | |
| | | | They are easily cleaned with a vacuum |
| Persia is course present day Iran. Persian | | | | cleaner. However they may need to be beaten |
| Oriental floor rugs tend to have curved | | | | once in while. |
| lines. They too are subdivided according to | | | | |