Oriental Area Rugs
The known motive of orient area rugs is a life tree, birds, symmetrically around it. The orient area rugs comprise complicated symbols, expressed in pictures and in colors. The same sign can mean different things in dependence on the country. So, a cloud means fertile rain in China and does immortality in Iran.
But Europeans often see in orient area rugs just a colors play with no attention to covered sense. Hand-made orient area rugs of natural materials (wool, silk, jute) are ,of course, the most valuable. Machine-made items with printed pictures are the most spread due to their low price.
Orient area rugs for public premises, offices and passages are better of syn-thetic raw, because they will often happen under harmful conditions. Orient area rugs made of natural raw are less resistant to organic pollution and to physical influence. They are more suitable for home use due to such properties as low warmth conductivity, absence of chemical dyes