If the topic of hotel carpet comes up, you can bet it has to do with the carpet in question's a) loudness b) busyness c) unattractiveness or d) swirly-hued patterns. Comedians like to pick on it, as ...

A more than 400-year-old Iranian silk carpet formerly belonging to the Rothschild family will be offered at Christie’s London next month, with an estimated value between £1 million and £1.5 million ...

Tapestries of all periods may be out of fashion, but when it comes to carpets, serious collectors will pay stratospheric sums to acquire a particularly choice Oriental. Consider the world-record ...