I bet you’re tired of hearing from me by now, but I promise that we have endured all of the boring, dense stuff. Now to the fun stuff! You may ask, “what else is there to talk about?” We’ve covered everything from history to thread count to air filters to pet stains. But we’ve never really talked about why these rugs are so popular in the United States. I have a few theories and they’re all concerned with one aspect of our culture. Pop Culture That’s right, pop culture. The thing millennials love to know way too much about and secretly wish existed as a college major choice. Obviously pop culture has a very large presence in our society. It’s constantly being fed to us through phones, TVs, movies, music, magazines, books, and billboards. Those are just a few examples. Because it is so omnipresent, we are heavily influenced by the images it projects. Whatever it suggests we eat, buy, listen to, watch, do, …show more content…
The best movie rug ever simply because it’s a magic flying carpet. None of the other movies on this list can even come close with their creepy carpets and their pee-stained rugs. Not even close. I also have to talk about this carpet because it what inspired me to do go on this journey in the first place. It’s what brought me here and it’s what helped inspire these articles. You can’t forget about your roots, am I right? No other rug has saved Aladdin from a collapsing Cave of Wonders, been the comedic relief at just the right moment, and helped convince Princess Jasmine that Aladdin was a prince (even though he clearly is out of his element). The magic flying carpet is just as much of a scene-stealer as the Genie is. And that’s what you want from a rug. You want it to steal the room, to capture everyone’s attention as soon as they walk in. Which is why I consider this movie the best representative of the iconic rug image in our society. It’s the reason I got started with Oriental rugs, so who’s to say that it didn’t jumpstart someone else’s