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a soft lie about your floors that quietly hoards everything you've ever dropped or shed
means a thick woven floor covering, typically of wool or synthetic fibers, laid over part or all of a room's floor
from From Old French 'carpite' and medieval Latin 'carpita,' a coarse cloth, drawn from Latin 'carpere' — to pluck or pull apart. The word originally meant fabric made from unraveled, pulled-apart rags, so a carpet was literally something 'plucked' into being. For centuries it described a table or bed covering before it ever meant something you walked on — which is why being 'on the carpet' once meant a matter laid out for discussion.
- oldest survivor
- The Pazyryk carpet is roughly 2,500 years old
- hidden ecosystem
- Carpets host mites, skin flakes, and entire microbiomes
- flying myth
- Magic carpets predate planes by over a millennium
- red roots
- Red carpets date to ancient Greek tragedy
- knot obsession
- Fine Persian rugs pack 1,000+ knots per square inch
persian carpet — handwoven in iran, can sell for $100,000+ at auction
red carpet at cannes — annual film festival entrance, palais des festivals, since 1946
bagdad carpet — iraqi traditional weaving, unesco recognized craft