Round Area Rugs
The beauty of round area rugs weavings has unquestionably been the most important factor both for historians and collectors but it is the starting point, the motivation for a greater curiosity. The history, genealogy, beliefs and way of life of peoples are all of great importance to their art of round area rugs.
Round are rugs, therefore, with their distinctive palettes, motifs and compositions, are not merely examples of a strange and exotic art but represent a highly complex and historically continuous culture.
Whenever round area rugs are depicted in early art, whether Eastern or Western, they are associated with power and wealth, both religious and secular.
From such evidence, it would seem that for a long time round area rugs weavings were the preserve of the upper echelons of the societies, which made or imported them. It is therefore more likely that round area rugs were produced by settled communities.
The manufacture of round area rugs by knotting woolen threads on to a net-like ground structure was probably derived from round area rug flat-weave techniques. The development from a continuous round area rug flat-weave such as round area rugs, through such loose napping as the loop-pile technique to the final refinement of knotting seems logical. It was not only geography and climate, which forced many of the inhabitants of Central Asia into an accent way of life and their style of round area rug making.