Discoveries that changed the world | Carpet

Arab weather - in the past, people used the rush plant to cover the floors of rooms, where the floors - in England, for example - were leveled with a layer of white clay and covered with the rush plant, which was renewed from time to time, but the plant did not cover the floor completely and the dirt seeped into the lower layer and the dirt remained on it for a while long.

Then the tree plant was replaced by carpets, whose manufacture dates back to before Islam in the early days of Egyptian civilization, and was popular among the Bedouin Arab, Persian, and Anatolian tribes, but the Muslims were the first to develop design and weaving techniques, so they decorated their carpets with amazing colors and decorations, thanks also to the development of The science of chemistry among Muslims, as they used to make new dyes that they used in textiles and leather tanning. Therefore, Islamic carpets were famous for their colors and geometric shapes that were in the middle of the carpets and surrounded by the harmonious Arabic motifs.

Islamic carpets were highly appreciated and spread in Europe until it was known about Henry VIII that he owned more than four hundred carpets from the Islamic world, and carpets made in the Islamic world are still distinguished, and carpets remained a distinctive commodity sought by carpet collectors, textile museums and merchants, and the carpet industry became The necessities of life in the modern world.