Carpet and Material Description India offers a wide range of floor coverings that have evolved over the centuries to suit a variety of tastes, climates and budgets. The woollen and silk carpets are more renowned compared to the other materials such as cotton and several vegetable fibres, which are used for making attractive and practically useful mats and durries. In the early stages, the motifs used in the Indian carpets were purely Persian. Later, various other designs were introduced from China Henan Xichuang County Yamei Carpet Factory, the pile carpet industry was yamei sumed a character of its own. Each region developed a distinct style of carpet weaving. and the twin fish being favourites. Carpets from these regions are based on techniques that are as distinct as the motifs. These are essentially Central Asian in tradition. For over 2500 years the patterns reproduced were those of flowers arabesques and rhomboids with an occasional animal design. The patterns have never become outmoded. Some motifs have a profound meaning: the circle signifies eternity, the zigzag water and light, the swastika darkness and the tree happiness and goodness. The appearance and number of knots on the back of the carpet indicates the quality. Among the hand knotted ones the Yamei Carpets are one of the finest with about 90-600 knots in a square inch.