Oriental Rug Exchange

Grand Bazaar of - . Those are pictorial rugs, not paintings.

“Clearly, there were problems with conventional wisdom. The most glaring gap in conventional carpet theory, however, is that specialists simply did not have—and never have had—an explanation for the core problem: What is a Muslim carpet doing in a Christian painting in the first place?'
---Professor Lauren Arnold from the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western history at the University of San Francisco