Egyptian rugs are an anomaly, or so it seems to me. On one hand, just a few rugs and carpets from Egypt reach these shores each year, yet some of these are among the best rugs in the world. 
Egyptian rugs are an anomaly, or so it seems to me. On one hand, just a few rugs and carpets from Egypt reach these shores each year, yet some of these are among the best rugs in the world.
Most people don’t think of Egypt as a source of Oriental rugs. New Egyptian rugs are almost never included in books on the subject because, first of all, new Oriental rugs of any nationality are rarely written about in books, and, secondly, Egyptian rugs today do not have a recognizable Egyptian ‘look’. Nearly all are based on Persian designs.
Egypt has a rug-weaving tradition that dates back to at least the sixteenth century. After a brief period of glory, though, it seems to have gone into abeyance until after World War Two. The birth of the handmade carpet industry in modern Egypt dates to the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, when the importation of carpets from Iran ceased.
About Egypt’s Ornamental Elements...
The lotus - a symbol of beauty and immortality eternal life.
Boat of eternity - a symbol associated with the concept of day and night sailing of the sun - Ra to heaven, andthe underground Nile
Scarab beetle - a symbol of resurrection;
Gryphon -a mythical creature with the head, claws and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion, a snake with a longtail. It symbolizes the domination of the two spheres of existence: the earth (left) and air (the eagle).
Urey - the sacred cobra-protector - a symbol of power
Eye-”Wadjet” - symbolizing the resurrection after death (the right eye symbolized the sun, and the left - the Moon)
Most people don’t think of Egypt as a source of Oriental rugs. New Egyptian rugs are almost never included in books on the subject because, first of all, new Oriental rugs of any nationality are rarely written about in books, and, secondly, Egyptian rugs today do not have a recognizable Egyptian ‘look’. Nearly all are based on Persian designs.Egypt has a rug-weaving tradition that dates back to at least the sixteenth century. After a brief period of glory, though, it seems to have gone into abeyance until after World War Two. The birth of the handmade carpet industry in modern Egypt dates to the Egyptian Revolution in 1952, when the importation of carpets from Iran ceased.
About Egypt’s Ornamental Elements...
The lotus - a symbol of beauty and immortality eternal life.Boat of eternity - a symbol associated with the concept of day and night sailing of the sun - Ra to heaven, andthe underground Nile
Scarab beetle - a symbol of resurrection;
Gryphon -a mythical creature with the head, claws and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion, a snake with a longtail. It symbolizes the domination of the two spheres of existence: the earth (left) and air (the eagle).
Urey - the sacred cobra-protector - a symbol of power
Eye-”Wadjet” - symbolizing the resurrection after death (the right eye symbolized the sun, and the left - the Moon)
The sign of life - Ankh - symbol of the rising sun, the unity of male and female
It combines two symbols - the cross as a symbol of life and the circle as a symbol of eternity
The sign of strength -
Cat - was the earthly incarnation of Bastet - Goddess of sunshine, joy and fertility, protector of pregnant women and children, homemakers, and harvest. Bastet personified
Heron - was considered a symbol of resurrection and eternal life (the prototype of phoenix), and represented the Ben - one of the original, no one created by the gods like Ra or Atum qualities such as grace, beauty, skill and tenderness.
It combines two symbols - the cross as a symbol of life and the circle as a symbol of eternity
The sign of strength -
Cat - was the earthly incarnation of Bastet - Goddess of sunshine, joy and fertility, protector of pregnant women and children, homemakers, and harvest. Bastet personified
Heron - was considered a symbol of resurrection and eternal life (the prototype of phoenix), and represented the Ben - one of the original, no one created by the gods like Ra or Atum qualities such as grace, beauty, skill and tenderness.
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