Wool Area Rugs
There are a great variety of materials that are used for making rugs. Of natural fiber most known are wool, silk and cotton. Comparing to others wool is a soft, durable and relatively cheap material. That makes wool area rugs most comon type on the rugs market.
Wool for making wool area rugs is made from coat of sheep.
The quality of wool area rugs highly depend on a region where the sheep is from. Wool of sheeps that from high altitudes is superior. That type of wool for high quality wool area rugs can be obtained at high altitudes of mountainous regions of Iran(former Persia) and in the the Caucasian mountains.
More durable wool area rugs are made of wool from the Middle East. They are used in areas with high traffic. Wool is very easy to dye so the wool area rugs are available is a great variety of defferent color from pure white to gray and brawn. Sometimes a little bit of animal hair is added into the wool.
That gives the wool area rugs a nice shiny look.
Nowaday wool area rugs of different types, forms and sizes are presented on the market. They can be hand-made or produced by machines. Hand-made wool area rugs are all unique in their kind and so they are expensive. Machine made wool area rugs are cheaper and be made with any design and decorating motifs pictured on them.
You can also look for wool area rugs online. There is huge amount of information on that theme on the internet.