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Carpet
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A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing.
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The origin of carpet-making must be sought in Central Asia, where they were woven by Turkish nomads who then brought the technique with them to the Middle East.
Peter Malcolm Holt Ann K. S. Lambton Bernard Lewis The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 2B, Islamic Society and Civilisation http://books.google.com/books?id=UfQWT_esc5cC&pg=PA723 21 April 1977 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-29138-5 723
A carpet is the soul of an apartment.
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Furniture" in The Gentleman's Magazine (1840:6), p. 267
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