subject: Carpets, From Barter To The Net [print this page] The Pazyryk carpet has been found in 1929 on the border between Russia and Mongolia in the chief of a tribes grave; it measures 200x182 cm and it has 360 thousand turkibaft knots (the Turkish knots) for each square meter.
Since the Pazyryks times till nowadays many things changed: there are new techniques and, depending on the fashions, different materials are used. The traditional techniques, anyway, remain the same; many carpets are still handworks, even though the number of knots per square meters does not reach the 360 thousand of the Pazyryk or even the 700 thousand of a carpet found 200 km far from it some years later, but normally stays around some thousands.
Following the various fashions that came one after the other in the different historical periods, you can find carpets in a multitude of different styles; from the classic to the design, you can find just anything. Moreover, apart from the classical carpets shops in which you can see and touch the carpet youll put in your home, technology offers other possibilities: in the internet era, the net doesnt leave its users in want of anything. One of the latest trends, in fact, is not only using the internet for just anything, from the back account to the TV programs, but it is transforming it into an exchange mean: the online selling is more and more common for many shops, that offer not only the goods in the real world shop, but also all that they can introduce in the shop they keep always updated in the virtual world of internet, to which anyone can access anytime of the day and the night to admire the handicrafts, and buy them directly from the internet. If your prefer buying with a real vendor, though, internet can still be a valid help to avoid useless trips: before going to the shop you can have a look at the online carpets offer, then go to the shop and touch what you had chose from the internet.
If you decide to buy online, though, theres nothing easier: a click and its done. As any other product, carpets as well had to adapt to the new selling ways: nowadays any object, from the most modern to the most traditional ones, found their place in the internet. This has its positive sides: the choice is much wider and does not require any displacement, though it still gives the chance to contact the shop to have some clarifications, if you wish. Thanks to the internet, the, the carpets offer got much bigger, offering a complete view on any kind of carpet you are looking for: from the classical to the design ones, modern, in leather and other materials, all you are looking for can be found in a click.
