“Home sweet home”. Some people say that there’s no place like home. Home is the place where we take a shelter, get the protection, and do some daily activities in our life. Inside the house, we protected from the hot weather or rainy days. And what is more, we can get the convenience and safe situation. Though we often left the house for work, house is the place where we can take a rest.

The convenience of a home is without forgetting the furniture such as chair or couch, table, cupboard, bed, etc. And nowadays, people had completed their home with rugs. We can see any house; the floor there must be covered by rug, whether at the guest room or living room. Some people also call it carpet.

People change another floor mat with the rugs. Or maybe they think the floor mat is old and passé. Sometimes people use rug as the substitute of chair where they want to take sit and rest at floor while watching television.

There are many kinds of rugs these days, like as the floor mat, tapestry, and wall decoration. Rugs or carpets have many designs and motives that people like. It starts from the antique rugs until the modern one. If you want to know more about rugs or carpets, you can read this article including the history and how to care the rugs.

Oriental Rugs

We can see an antique rug by the passé design and motive. It’s derived from the ancient Persian. The rugs that they made were handmade and weaving with the loom. The Persian weaving had the high value of art, high quality, and historical. No wonder if the Persian rugs have more value of investment, and great trade at all over the world.

The antique Persian rugs are rich in colors with many different designs and certain motives or symbol. One of the designs is like the flowers motive, animal, and curved line. The quality of those rugs becomes the best quality with the silk and wool material. We can say that those antique rugs as the oriental rugs. The techniques to make this carpet based on the traditionally carpet weaver from the east countries and the Persian rugs are the most famous. But not only Persia, another country that popular with the rugs is Turkey with the Anatolian carpet. Despitefully, China, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Spain, and North Africa produced the good quality rugs. And these days, those countries still produce the oriental carpets with modern design and their own style.

There’s the term of knotting in making a rug. The rug weave made of knotted threads in symmetric or asymmetric. The Persian rugs used the asymmetric knotting that popular with the strong knotting. The threads on the weave were ready to knot become the pattern. The weave has two forms such as vertical and horizontal. For the finishing, the weaver sewn all the edges of carpet. The edge of carpets such as tufted sewn and the one without accent.

At the modern rugs, the materials are from nylon and polypropylene. And what is more, the carpet made of latex makes it softer. Nowadays, people use carpet not only at home, but also in the hotels and restaurants.

The contemporary carpets not only have the flower and symbols motives. We can find another modern designs and motives such as funny motives for children, like the animal motive or cartoon character. Other than that, there’s carpet with numbers and letters that have multiple functions. Beside as the floor mat, it can also educate the children. Usually, those carpets have bright and interesting colors that would make the children happy to be there for longer time.