European Rugs

A genuine French, English or Spanish handmade carpet of one of the famous historical periods is a museum piece. I doubt if there are any available today.

A charming English or Continental needlework piece comes into the market once in a blue moon. Old needlework rugs, like hooked rugs, were planned and made by individual women to their own tastes.

The design does not indicate the age, because some industrious nineteenth century needleworker may have meticulously copied an eighteenth century design, just as you might make a new hooked rug today, carefully copying an old one that you admired.