artistry, and artistry learned from generations of using the old ways to know beauty and global culture that disperse through every single knot. They are the result of human labor, performed by hand, across the deserts of Persia, the villages of India, and in the mountains of Nepal. The interplay of patterns, fibers, and colors produce rugs that reflect human nature (and in a few generations again the reflection of our surroundings) to combine economy, aesthetics, beauty and creativity. At once, rugs tell our stories of history, craft, and an artistic truth that the beauty of mass-produced items, is forgotten.