Decorating With Elegant Oriental Rugs

Oriental rugs will add timeless elegance and beauty to your home, will coordinate with any decorating scheme, and enhance any room, hallway, or entranceway. They are also great for decorating home offices, and are an especially good choice for high traffic areas because of the intricacies of their designs, which hide soil. The term "oriental" refers to rugs produced in Asia, such as Iran, India, China and Turkey.

Making rugs by hand is an ancient craft and the old designs reflect the religions and ethnicity of the times in the areas of origin. Many of the ancient designs are still produced today, hand-woven and hand-knotted or woven by machine. The most traditional patterns are those with a garden or floral motif, or geometric or curvilinear designs around a central medallion or a central scene. Oriental rugs used to be woven with only natural fibers such as wool, silk, cotton, or goat and camel hair, but now you they are available with less expensive synthetic materials such as olefin (polypropylene), polyester, nylon and acrylic. Wool rugs remain the first choice for durable, soft, dirt and fire resistant, warm rugs, but synthetic reproductions make oriental area rugs more affordable. They come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes: rectangular, round, oval and runner.

How to Choose an Oriental Rug for Your Home

Determine how you are going to use your area rug. Will it define furniture groupings or unify the elements in the room? Is its prima

ily to protect the floor or a carpet? Is its chief function to add warmth and comfort? The purpose of the rug will dictate its size and shape. Also keep these points in mind:

Consider Quality and Cost

It is not as difficult as you may think to find good quality, affordable area rugs with oriental designs. When you shop online, you deal directly with vendors who can offer discount and warehouse pricing because there are no storefront costs or middlemen. In addition to shopping online, here are other ways to make the oriental rug of your dreams affordable:

Whether you choose a genuine antique oriental wool rug that has been hand woven and hand knotted in Iran, or you select a polypropylene machine woven rug with an oriental design manufactured in North America, you will be adding elegant beauty, warmth and comfort to your home.

Oriental rugs will add timeless elegance and beauty to your home, will coordinate with any decorating scheme. It is not as difficult as you may think to find good quality, affordable area rugs with oriental designs when you shop online