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Its woolen threads are not, as is usual in rugs of the Orient, knotted in a continuous column over the same warp threads, but alternate, each row leaving every other thread untied.

The result is a particularly sharp pattern. The method is characteristic of rug work in Europe in the Middle Ages.

Dr. Sarre says that the pattern of this rug had its origin in the Oriental Tree of Life which originated about the year 600 and which is Islamic. It appears in Spain in 961 on a column in the Mosque of Cor­dova, where are found also other features present in the design of this carpet and of allied work in later centuries.

In fact Spanish rugs con­stantly rehearse the elements of design present in the Castle Carpet.