Area Rugs Through History

Area rugs has been a part of our interior design history ever since Cleopatra was

rolled inside a thick Persian carpet to meet in secret with Julius Caesar. But looking back, decorating your home was a luxury reserved for the rich and famous, it was not something the average farmer family was concerned about as they tried to raise seven children- surviving winter on nothing but a meager crops and intensive prayers.

But with the industrial revolution and a merging middle class, furniture became something not strictly reserved for kings and queens and families who started to free themselves of the chains of poverty, also started to take an interest in spicing their living areas up a little bit.

The Austerity Of Wood And Stone

There is something quite beautiful but also quite cold about a bare room stone or wood. It is like the history of the material, and imbedded in the texture itself, there is a harshness reminding you that this is material that had stood the test of time in whatever conditions mother nature has put them through.

This is where a beautiful rug can make a great impact, correlating with the material of the foundation but still providing it with a unique touch of softness and warmth. There are few things as welcoming as a wool rug when you enter a room.

Just picture a ski cabin with a fire place- take away a beautiful rug from that equation and the picture just seems slightly off somehow.

Standing The Test Of Time

So there are few things that can compare to these types of rugs when it comes to having been an important and popular item of designing your home with. It may have been treated more as a painting or as a piece of art in its own making when sultans decorated their palaces with them, than being a mere soft carpet for his many children to trample all over, as during these days they were not only elaborately designed with complex motifs that could take years to stitch in there, but on top of that the material used was usually of the highest most expensive quality. Embroidering the carpet with thin threads of gold, imbedding glittering pieces of small diamonds into the fabric. Back then, this was a symbol of status as much as it was something to enhance your castles dining room with. Much like hip hop stars of today sleep in king-size beds with bedposts made out of 24 carat gold and rest their weary heads on pimped up pillows studded with diamonds of the finest variety.

True is that these rugs never have gone out of style. And now more than ever, they come in such a wide variety and at such widely spread price ranges, that they can be put to use no matter who you are and where you are. It can still be a hand-stitched oriental rug stealing all the attention as it shows off in front of the fire-place, or it can be practical and fun area rugs for your kids to play on in their room.

by: Kurt Ross

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