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Article: Magnificent scenes of beauty underfoot.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 25, 1998
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You walk on a carpet of one sort or another every day. Most of us have probably used carpets to set off the furniture. And it is the modern fashion to choose a plain, unadorned carpet throughout the house.
There is nothing at all wrong with this, in fact, plain carpets provide a perfect background for antique rugs and runners, setting the rich old colours off to advantage and focusing the eye on their beauty.
During the period of the Mughal dynasty in India, magnificent carpets represented for their owners a token of social prestige. The brilliant patterns ...