As far as the origin, and therefore the characteristics, the designs and the decorations, the carpets orientals can be divided in five great groups between the coming from carpets from the Asia Minor (Anatolia and Turkey) must be remembered the so-called prayers " above all ", of small dimensions for the individual use, famous all over the world for the lucentezza of the wool, the splendor of the colors and the refinement of the design.

The caucasici carpets are characterized instead from stilizzati geometric designs with symbols nearly separated, between which they detach the dagger, the triangle, the cross, the comb.

The Persian carpets constitute the more numerous and prestigious group. Great variety of ornamentali reasons introduces one: garden with flowers, plants, streams and animals; but also magical symbols and entire scenes of hunting or life of court.

The carpets of the central Asian regions show one less smaller variety of designs and one technical of colors developed (in prevalence white men, red, tawny, blue); however great coming from famous beauty and pregio has the Bukara from these zones, characterized from repeated geometric designs to losanghe with predominion of the red color: or the Belucistan, anch' they to geometric designs with mostly dark inks.