Perhaps Egyptian rugs remain inconspicuous in the world of antique rugs because Egypt lies in the shadow of some of the world's rug producing giants of yesterday and today (Persia and Turkey for two). The Egyptian awe-inspiring hand-woven carpets and rugs are famous all over the world.Īmong the lesser known antique rug centers of the world is Egypt, but lesser known does not equate to lesser in terms of quality, color, design, and historical robustness. Motifs like a palmette on the red background of a carpet, etc. Usually woven with wool, Egyptian carpets and rugs are tied with asymmetrical or Ghiordes knots. The weavings derived from Cairo greatly look like the ones in Eastern Turkistan. The carpet cradles, Persian and Anatolian designs spread their wings to Istanbul, and then to weaving places in Cairo. The earliest forms of carpets displayed geometric designs. With unique elegance, they were traded off to distant places far east. After a brief period of glory in Egypt, have gone into disuse after World War II, the birth of the handmade carpet industry in modern Egypt dates to the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, when the importation of carpets from Iran ceased.Ĭarpets from the Islamic world, like Egypt, are fabricated with greater quantity as well as quality.
