Carpets are considered textile floor covering products, and being such, are exposed more than any other antique art to the ravages of the laws of nature, that is, to decay. One can, therefore, never establish definitely when the first woven rug was made. It must be assumed, of course, that the weaving process had already been invented an invention that may well have been one of the earliest of mankind. It is generally assumed that the carpet was originally intended to replace animal pelts. It is, therefore, reasonable to assume that originally a thick, woolen texture was produced, whose monotony ...