The oldest known rug in existence is the Pazyryk Rug, found on the Mongolian steppes in the icy tomb of a Scythian prince in 1949, after 2500 years in the ground. Woven with 278 Turkish knots per square inch and colored with dyes from plants and insects indigenous to the steppes, this exquisite piece of work was preserved when grave-robbers broke into the tomb and exposed it to leakage, causing it to fill with water and then freeze, preserving the contents by shielding them from air and light.
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In a Chinese folk tale recently retold by author Demi, a woman weaves the most beautiful tapestry in the world, which is carried away by the wind. Only one of her sons accepts the dangerous mission to retrieve it.
Baba Yaga, the witch of Russian and Slavic lore, supplies Ivan the Fool with a magical carpet to help him on his quest.
Cleopatra, according to legend, made one of her great political and romantic conquests by rolling herself up inside an exquisite rug and having it delivered to Caesar, setting the stage for one of the greatest royal couplings of all time. They remained lovers for three years, during which time she bore him a son, Caesarion (Ptolemy XV).
There are many legends of magical carpets, made popular in Western culture by the story of Prince Hussain’s Carpet in One Thousand and One Nights. King Solomon’s carpet, for example, was sixty miles long by sixty miles wide. It traveled so quickly, it was said, that the king could breakfast in Damascus and take his supper in Media, hundreds of miles away. When Solomon lost his humility the carpet, to punish him, shook off thousands of his subjects, sending them plummeting to their deaths.
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