The Beautiful Silken Treasures Collection by Couristan attracts its inspiration from the magnificent textiles, exotic artifacts and ancient buildings that graced the landscape of China? ancient trade route, Silk Road? during the period of the 4th to the 10th centuries. Designed with texture, fiber and color interest in mind, this hand-knotted collection? pile is created of a blend of 80% Virgin wool and 20% Natural silk. This unique blending of fibers provides the collection? pile with a velvety soft hand and a subtle sheen. Attractively textured, each of the collection? thirteen exquisitely detailed patterns are carefully colored in earthtones for a dateless elegance that will bestow warmth and comfort to any time-honored or contemporary room-setting in the home.

Beige Couristan-SilkenTreasures Persian Oriental Area Rug Wool/Silk

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Some History of Persian and Oriental Rugs

Some of the most beautiful antique rugs are in American homes, for the American is rapidly becoming a connoisseur in this art, and all classes are yearly showing a greater interest in it. Few are the homes of taste and refinement where one or more rugs are not found.While the Western world uses rugs uses chiefly as floor coverings, to the Oriental they were the only furniture of his house, serving as carpets along the sides and end of the reception-roomthe center usually being left for the servants  who waited upon or entertained the guests; taking the place of divan, pillow, and cushion covers; doing duty as portieres or wall hangings; placed before the open fire as seats of honor, or at the door as a token of welcome ; serving as beds at night, which might be rolled away in the daytime. They gave warmth and cheer and a sense of comfort, as they do with us. The rug has always been used for religious purposes : in the service of the Religious old Egyptian temples, in the. decora- Purpose tion of the walls of the Kaaba before the time of Mohammed, as altar-cloths and as canopies in processions in Christian cathedrals. In the mosques of the Moslems and in the temples of the Buddhists rugs have had a place.