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Every carpet, with its patterns, resembles a collection of messages, beliefs and symbols. They are declarations of wish, on which all expectations are enshrined. Every pattern that is woven into a carpet is a picture of a feeling, a desire or a wish. So far as that every carpet represents a living history from the early ages to the present in which women have patiently and untiringly written their joys and sorrows in amazing codes and magic letters which are to be read line by line. They contain voices of birds, voices of children, gently blowing spring winds, flowers, leaves, branches, figures, whims, wishes and rebukes. An expectation of rain is symbolized by a cloud, and an expectation of news by a bird with four wings and two heads, but the language of these symbols has not been fully decoded to our day.
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