By: Martina Celegato
Submitted: 2009-10-20 09:34:41 | Word Count: 485
The carpet is one of the most needed accessories to furnish our house to make it warm and welcoming. However it is certainly not an easy choice, partly because of the price.
The first thing to do, when you are going to look for a carpet for your home, it is deciding whether you prefer modern carpets or those of ancient manufacture, like oriental carpets. The answer is usually quite simple, since those who appreciate a classic décor with wood furniture, usually wants classic carpets with hand manufacture. Unlike those who prefer modern furniture, with colorful furnishing and perhaps more innovative forms, will also prefer modern fabrics carpets, which can have colors, shapes and materials much more varied.
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As for traditional carpets, most ancient manufacturing carpets, usually hand knotted, are available only in traditional styles, like Oriental and Persians. The dominant colors are usually red and black. But of you are looking for an antique carpet, it will not be very easy for you to find what you really want. The range of colors and designs are rather limited. Unless you have a really high budget, what you want may easily not be available, and you will have to settle for what is left. Unless you are planning a trip to Morocco in the near future. And you also need a suitable place in your house to properly show an antique carpet, which is more delicate and that can not be placed in the entrance, for instance, where the continuous passage of people will ruin it very quickly.
But if your preferences fall on the modern furnishing, you will certainly prefer to seek other kind of carpets. The possibilities in this filed are really a lot and usually cheaper. The fibers used are usually natural, however, such as wool, cotton, silk or artificial (acrylic, polypropylene, nylon, polyester, viscose). The different types of processing, then, allow the creation of very different models, from hand tufted carpets to those weaved with mechanical looms. Fleece, however, can be combed or not, shaved or long.
The production of carpets this way can keep costs lower and products more varied, so as to meet the needs of customers, even those who do not want to spend thousands of euro into one carpet but sill want to find beautiful carpets and in line with the décor of their home.
For those who think that modern rugs are simply a kind of doormats, should rethink noting the richness of colors, sizes, designs and processes that these rugs can offer. A further touch of class is offered by leather carpets, also in leather and fur, of sure effect in every room of the house.
