Perhaps the most the first carpet was the skin of the same long-suffering When our mammoth ... ancestor proudly brought and demonstrated better half multi-month supply of meat in the form of a furry carcass - primitive woman He pauses. Still, who like to sit on the cold floor to sleep on bare rocks and contemplate the uncomfortable gray walls of the cave? When the mammoths became quite bad, people gradually moved to hide smaller and not so hard ... So extinct saber-toothed tigers, cave bears and many other animals with soft and nice touch skins.

But this, of course the same imagination and poetry. A very real archaeologists say that the carpet It is known to man since ancient times. However, no exact date. Yes, and define the "Homeland" of the carpet is not possible ...

The first in the history of humanity woven images were found in the tomb of the pharaoh Tuthmosis IV. They refer to the time of the New Kingdom (XVI-XI centuries. BC. E.). A beautiful Cleopatra, however, much later, presented himself to Caesar wrapped precious carpet!

The earliest surviving carpet was created in V. BC. e., they found him in the last century in the Altai, in the famous Pozarykskom barrow, now it is stored in the Hermitage. The researchers suggest that it could be made in Assyria, which grew on the ruins of a mighty Persian Power - the country in which the carpets have become a national treasure. Agree Persian carpet - this is a classic of the genre.

China has learned the art carpet over 3000 years ago, but they were made exclusively for Decoration quarters of Chinese emperors. At about the same for centuries and dates back to time of occurrence of carpet weaving in India.

If you really generally, it can be concluded: carpet weaving originated in the vast and immensely beautiful East. But with a specific place of origin of art twisting yarn and knit nodules are not clear. With "parents" all the little easier ... There is no dispute that they were nomads. They invented the movable loom machine and have "at hand" was the necessary raw materials - wool grazing sheep. In those distant and uncomfortable times carpet could replace wandering nomads and saddle, and bed. The carpet was a simple human element of convenience - they are not proud of, it is not cherished. I spoil - emissions need - new woven ...

Decorating carpets We started only when there is more or less permanent dwellings. Gradually, Year after year, the carpet penetrated deep into the life - he served in the walls of wagons many crossings, bed, wall and floor in the house, objects of worship, dowry, redemption and production, has been the product of art and the best gift ... The richer the family lived, the more she had carpets. Buying and selling them was not accepted: in each house had its own press and its needlewoman.

Only in the III century in the workshops and manufactories Persia and Minor Asia began production of carpets for sale. It was then, "Transportable" caravans and merchants, carpets slowly infiltrated into Europe ... West did not depart from the East. The royal palace very soon realized that carpets may well become the symbol of the power of the monarch's power. For example, when Bourbons no one dared without the permission of the king to set foot on the carpet, embroidered with coats of arms of the ruling family. In 1065 the Louvre opened the first carpet workshop where the beautiful carpets woven for the needs of the palace. Only King Louis XIV, they produced a hundred huge panels with fine drawings. A simple mortal carpets became available much later ...

Industrial production of carpets began in 1839. FROM Personality development of technology and sophistication of handmade carpets began valued much higher. Accordingly, they had a huge demand and they increased significantly in price. ... There were collectors and con artists. Deceivers to wear out new, "penny" rugs, etched their acid and alkali, rubbed coffee grounds, burned and even buried in the ground.

Excitement around the handmade carpets since no ceases. They put on the world famous auctions, they are stored in museums, they are proud of ...

Natalia Rudenko