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The Rules for Persian Rugs

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Area rugs can really make a big difference in the feeling of your home. If you have wooden floors, it is a great idea to add some texture to a room by placing oriental rugs in it. This added splash of color can enhance any gathering you have by allowing people to think about how your furniture interacts with your rugs.

And don’t think that Persian rugs won’t go with your current decor – they are so classic that they can go anywhere and look good. A great way to make your interior design more interesting is by combining different elements (modern with antique, leather and wool) for a unique room that offers options.

Silk or wool is a good choice if you are thinking about area rugs, though the former, I must warn you, is typically more expensive. It does attract light better, however, and also may function as a piece of decorative artwork. Should you buy a 5×8, you can hang it on the wall to appreciate its multitudinous colors and superb craftsmanship.

Persian rugs are excellent investments, appreciating dramatically once they become antiques. Remember to keep your Oriental rugs out of the sun, and if they’re underneath furniture, rotate them annually so they don’t become worn in one specific area.

Persian Rugs and the Achaemenid Empire

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Persia, also known as Iran, was once the political center of the world. The Achaemenid Empire (550-33 B.C.E) held a huge expanse of land, stretching from the Indus Valley to Thrace and Macedon in the north, all the way to present day Liberia in the east. It was the Persian Empire that freed the Jewish people from Babylon, that warred with the Greek city states and that instituted an official language (Aramaic).

Eventually, the empire weakened when the king delegated power to local governors, undermining his own status and causing difficulty in the quelling of local rebellions. This eventually led to Alexander the Great’s reign over the empire. Alexander greatly respected Cyrus the Great, and adopted the Persian technique of proskynesis, or lying prostrate before royalty, into Macedonian culture. Cyrus the Great had huge area rugs, which are said to have dazzled Alexander.

During these peaceful times, the arts flourished, and stone-cutting and carpet weaving became important aspects of Persian cultural heritage. This is when the Pazyryk carpet and others of the world’s oldest area rugs were created. These hand knotted rugs evolved to become world renowned throughout the Ancient and Modern Eras. Today, Persian rugs are still widely known to be the best.

How to Haggle for Persian Rugs

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You were in the market for fine oriental rugs. You searched all over your town and found a place on the east side. When you arrived at the warehouse you knew that you would find something worth buying, how could you not.

Inside a swarthy man with thick eyebrows and an aquiline nose greeted you. Do you have any fine Persian rugs you asked. He nodded obviously. He took you upstairs to the good stuff, the silk Persian rugs. I am looking for an 8 by 10 you said, silk. He walked away from you with his forefinger beckoning. There was a beautiful red rug, one of three silk Persian rugs you decided would look best in your living room beneath your brown leather couch.

The price of this rug is seven thousand dollars he said when you asked how much. That’s too much, you shook your head. I’ll give you three thousand cash you said. He scoffed and said I can do six thousand cash. You said I’ll pay you five thousand on credit and four in cash. He looked at you warily. Forty five hundred – cash, he said. You shook and knew that a deal on these fine Oriental rugs such as this is hard to come by.

Or you could just skip all the frustration and get an inexpensive rug at 1 800 Get A Rug.

Persian Rugs You Should Have Bought Months Ago

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You’ve  known you need area rugs for a long time. When you first moved in it was one of those things that you thought you’d get immediately but when you didn’t you put it off and convinced yourself that it was even better without them. Why cover the wood floors, you thought. But now it’s time.

The winter came and went and you felt the barrenness. You could have easily used the color and warmth, the texture and pleasure of walking barefoot comfortably. So now you begin shopping. And because you’re probably going to be in this home for awhile, it’s a good idea to invest in hand knotted area rugs you can be proud of.

Persian rugs are the finest. Silk is more expensive than Persian wool rugs. There are many designs and colors from which to choose, thus you should consider your interior decor and match it with your future Persian rugs.

When you choose which Persian rugs are right, you will remember your initial hesitation to buy as laziness. And through the seasons you will remember you purchase as the right thing to do and feel that your home is cozier, more natural and more properly adorned.

How Luxurious Area Rugs = Confidence

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The little things can make a big difference in your world. Nice things like silk Persian rugs can take your home from the same old traditional couch and coffee table kind of entertainment area to a fire-burning, rows of library books, pipe-smoking kind of luxurious suite. And it almost happens overnight, even if you don’t have a library with a  rolling ladder.

When you invest in area rugs you’re making a commitment to your home. You want to allow yourself a certain level of luxury and refinement. Area rugs are an ideal way to achieve that. These aspects of luxury are important to the way you live. If you can’t feel good about your living quarters, you probably can’t feel good about yourself. On the other hand, if you’re proud to come home and invite guests over, this will translate into greater confidence.

Textures are often unnoticed consciously, but that doesn’t mean your unconscious ignores the iridescent light that bounces off your silk Persian rugs. These details are important to creating an impression of splendor and quality. Your furniture will be buoyed by the fine materials and the confidence you have in your home and yourself will too. So go ahead and invest today!

Hand Knotted Rugs For Your Handcrafted Home

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Your home is so very important to you. Whether you live in a palatial mansion or a closet-like big city apartment, your space helps define you. You spend a lot of time finding just the right artfully decorative accessories and furniture that suits you and the space. You hand pick the things that matter to you and seem charming because you want your space to be yours.

With a hand knotted rug you can give the smallest or largest space a bit of handcrafted charm that will sync up perfectly with the more “lived in” particular choices you have made. It can really tie a room together or if spread through out your home it can tie the whole place together.

Knowing that these rugs are knotted by hand is incredibly special. To be able to notice and appreciate all of the work that actual people put into making these rugs is just astounding. It is rare these days that you have any connection to the goods in your home. These rugs can also find their way into hallways, bathrooms, and kitchenettes as hand knotted area rugs.

We have so many things that are built by robots and machines these days. It is nice to think about someone somewhere actually making a thing as beautiful as a rug.

A Persian Rugs Sonnet

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Recently a rug collector purchased an antique Persian rug. On the underside was an inscription in Farsi in what appears to be the sonnet form, composed with a quatrain, a cdecde scheme and followed by another quatrain, which ties the story together with the end lesson, which the speaker relates to the reader:

Sweet hand knotted area rugs for sale:

A technique passed down over a thousand years

Which other countries have tried, and yet failed

These rugs styles contain oriental tears.

An ancient lover chose one for a girl

She had another who gave her the world

So though she loved this fine area rug

Her cruel husband wouldn’t let it unfurl

He held her in the palm of his hand curled

Until she jumped from a window, lost love.

The moral of this sad and strange true tale

Is to give freedom to the things you love.

If you squeeze too hard, love is sure to fail –

Don’t hang your Persian rugs too high above.

The jealous husband must have prevented her from seeing her paramour and thus the girl, encapsulated in the hand of her lover, felt trapped and committed suicide.Rather gruesome, really. Thankfully today we don’t have such problems.