Carpet Superstitions.
A Persian never walks or stands upon a carpet in his shoes. In Persia carpets are held in great veneration; often they will remain in the family for generations, such careful treatment do they receive. When the owner of a valuable carpet dies he very often gives instructions that it shall be cut up in pieces as heirlooms to iiis successors, and should a member of the family not receive a portion he would feel very greatly slighted. The designs of Persian carpets have been handed down from remote ages. Each family keeps its own design, no two carpets being alike for fear of the Evil Eye. The wool of which the Persian carpet is made is taken from the lustrous wool of a special breed or sheep or from the goat, which is dyed by means of certain
plants and shrubs. It would be a criminal offence for persons to weave a carpet according to a European design, for a law has been made by the Shah especially forbidding this.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3103, 3 September 1913, Page 67
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