Wool is the most popular luxurious fiber. Wool is considered by many to be the very best carpet fiber material available. Sure it is expensive but for good reasons.

The real beauty of oriental rugs, for many modern buyers, is their absolute originality. No two rugs are exactly alike, in just the same way that no two paintings, or even people, are identical, Visitors may admire your wall-to-wall Axminster, then go Qut and get the same for their home, but however hard they try to find an exact replica of the wonderful oriental carpet in your living room they will never succeed.

The climate of India was less congenial to the necessary requirements of a carpet industry than the high Persian plateaux ...

Ask anyone who has grown to love their oriental rug how valuable it is, and the chances are they will term it priceless. Like any other work of art, a rug can be valued in o categories - as a cherished object which has become part of the home or as an item of investment. Also like other forms of art, the two are often hard to separate.