Criteria for Buying Rugs & Carpets

Choosing a Rug and Interior Decoration

• Rugs as Wall Hangings and Throws

Although created as floor covering, smaller rugs also make excellent wall hangings or furniture coverings. A good antique with an effective design worthy of sustained attention will work much like a painting when hung on the wall. Prayer rugs with architectural niche compositions are especially effective on the wall, where they function like windows, so as to expand or open up the space of the room. Supple antique rugs are wonderful as throws on a sofa or chair, and they make lovely bedspreads or tablecloths. Indeed, when Oriental rugs were first imported to Europe they were considered too precious to be walked on, but were used instead as tablecloths. The leather couch for the patients in Sigmund Freud's famous office in Vienna was covered by his prized Qasghai'i rug.