1. What is the difference between a rug and a carpet?

The terms "rug" and "carpet" are normally used to denote size (a carpet has a surface area of more than 4.4 m2 and its length is not more than 1½ times its width).
This distinction is not always made. In the United States and many other countries the term "rug" is used to describe any item regardless of size, whereas anything sold in Britain or the British Commonwealth is clearly identified as a carpet or rug.

2. What is an oriental rug?

The term "oriental rug" can be a source of some confusion to those unfamiliar with the subject. It literally means a rug manufactured in the Orient, and could legitimately be applied to any rug of oriental origin, regardless of its appearance or how it was made. In practice, however, the term is normally used only to describe hand-made rugs produced in the ancient weaving regions of Persia (Iran), Anatolia (Turkey), Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Baluchistan, Turkestan, China, India, Pakistan, the Balkans and parts of North Africa.

3. What are the parts of a Persian carpet?

4. How do rugs get their names?

Most oriental rugs derive their names either from their place of origin or, in the case of nomadic items, the weaving tribe.
Some of the more famous names in oriental rugs, in particular Herati and Mir, refer to design , rather than the place where they were made.

The use of a prefix in the name denotes that an item bearing the name of one weaving group was in fact made by another. For example, a rug made in the Kars region of Anatolia (Turkey) in a traditional Kazak (Caucasian) design will normally be referred to as a Kars Kazak.