The carpets have had origin in East, but when and where   the technique of the webbing is risen, it remains in great dark part: the most ancient carpet reached we, found again in the 1949 from one Russian shipment in one tomba principesca intact conservatasi under the ice of the Altai, in Central Asia, is made to go back to the fifth-quarter century ahead Christ. Draft of a wool carpet of 2 m of length for 1.90 of width, worked fine with winged geometric and stellar honor to the center and grifoni, grazing elk and knights to the edge; this working, already therefore evoluta is from the artistic point of view is from that technician, indicates in ignoto the craftsman one at least secular acquaintance of its art.

This piece of highest historical and aesthetic value, remains but of the all block, giacchè the next  ritrovamenti only go back to the third party-sixth century after Christ: all variopinti, these antichi carpets appear decorated with geometric reasons, or figures drawn from the world vegetable and animal, or with historical or mitologiche raffigurazioni.

The carpet in Europe.   Very soon the carpets become produced of exchange and, along the ways of the silk, they reach in the European dwellings; to similar ancient commerce the massive presence of carpets must all over the world from centuries orientals, benchè in Europe only rose, but much later (in the Sixteenth century), prestigious centers of webbing.