Another notable aspect of the Gospels are tiny drops of red lead, which create backgrounds, outlines, and patterns, but never appear on the carpet pages ( Backhouse 1981, 51 ).

The carpet pages are influenced by early Coptic ( Christian Egyptian ) manuscripts in their resemblance to Islamic prayer rugs, which were probably known during this time in Northumbria ( The British Library Board ).

Similarly to the way that the mats helped worshippers prepare for prayer, the carpet pages can represent the preparation of the reader before the Gospel message ( The British Library Board ).

The panels of geometrical decoration with two-stranded interlace closely relate to Insular illuminated manuscripts, and can be compared to the carpet pages found in these.

This is a simple version of the sort of design found on Insular carpet pages, as well as in Coptic manuscript decoration and textiles, and small stepped crosses decorate the main panels of the famous Sutton Hoo shoulder-clasps.

It contains a large illumination programme including six extant carpet pages, a full page miniature of the four evangelists ' symbols, four full page miniatures, each containing a single evangelist symbol, and six pages with significant decorated initials and text.

The geometric borders and the carpet pages cause more disagreement.

The interlace, like that of the Durham fragment, is mostly large compared to the Book of Lindisfarne, but the extreme level of detail found in later Insular books begins here in the Celtic spirals and other curvilinear decoration used in initials and in sections of carpet pages.

Parallels with metalwork can be noted in the rectangular body of St Matthew, which looks like a millefiori decoration, and in details of the carpet pages.

Other motifs include spirals, triskeles, ribbon plaits and circular knots in the carpet pages and borders around the Four Evangelists.

Gallery of carpet pages

Extremely detailed geometric, interlace, and stylised animal decoration, with forms derived from secular metalwork like brooches, spread boldly across manuscripts, usually gospel books like the Book of Kells, with whole carpet pages devoted to such designs, and the development of the large decorated and historiated initial.

The manuscript has two evangelist portraits ( St. Mark and St. Luke ), a carpet page, initial pages for Mathew (" Lib "), Mark ( initium ), and Luke ( Quoniam ), a Chi Rho monogram page, and a page with the Four evangelist symbols.

Although it is simpler in design than later carpet pages and contains motifs not found in later carpet pages, it shows a subtlety of pattern and alternation of colors common to Insular manuscripts.

Older, and more artistically esteemed examples can be seen on Migration period art objects like the carpet pages of Insular illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells.

There were probably originally evangelist portraits and carpet pages, as in other Insular Gospel books conceived on a similar scale.

The Book of Durrow is the earliest complete insular script illuminated Gospel Book and by about 700, with the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Hiberno-Saxon style was fully developed with detailed carpet pages that seem to glow with a wide palette of colours.

In the Lindisfarne Gospels, of around 700-715, there are carpet pages and Insular initials of unprecedented complexity and sophistication, but the evangelist portraits, clearly following Italian models, greatly simplify them, misunderstand some details of the setting, and give them a border with interlace corners.

Throughout his twenty-five year programme of designing carpets for State building, McGrath relied on the traditional skills of hand-knotted carpet manufacture in pure wool which were available at Donegal Carpets in Killybegs.

The use of the hexagram in a Jewish context as a possibly meaningful symbol may occur as early as the 11th century, in the decoration of the carpet page of the famous Tanakh manuscript, the Leningrad Codex dated 1008.

Plutarch in his " Life of Julius Caesar " gives a vivid description of how she entered past Ptolemy ’ s guards rolled up in a carpet that Apollodorus the Sicilian was carrying.

Lansky ’ s “ carpet joints ” in Florida and elsewhere were never “ clip-joints ” where gamblers were unsure of whether or not the games were rigged against them.

Linoleum, not carpet, used to cover the building ’ s floor, and the furnishings were stained while trim was painted.

Machine woven carpets like Axminster and Wilton are made by massive looms that weave together ‘ bobbins ’ of carpet yarn and backing.

Finally in 2001, Berkshire acquired 87 percent of Dalton, Georgia-based Shaw Industries, Inc. Shaw is the world ’ s largest carpet manufacturer based on both revenue and volume of production and designs and manufactures over 3, 000 styles of tufted and woven carpet and laminate flooring for residential and commercial use under approximately 30 brand and trade names and under certain private labels.

Harris is the chairman of Carpetright plc and has over 40 years ’ experience in carpet retailing.

In May 2009, she hit the red carpet to co-host the Rainforest Alliance ’ s annual gala to honor leaders in sustainability.

" The overnight firewatching job was unpopular, except with lads of 16 or 17 who were too young to be called up ; they could drink brown ale, use the typewriters and telephones and smoke the editor ’ s cigars ( leaving burns in the carpet ).

A damp patch on the living-room carpet doesn ’ t bother Sid-until he takes the skirting board off.

The surface was not favoured by everyone, with QPR keeper Peter Hucker describing it as " basically a bit of carpet over two feet of concrete ", and stated that as a goalkeeper, he strongly disliked diving onto it saying that " I ’ d have close to third degree burns because the pitch would totally rip the skin off.

On the other hand, when you recognize the pattern on the surface of the carpet, you realize it ’ s something very repulsive, it looks like entrails splayed out all over the floor as if it's the aftermath of a massacre.

Banished to Basilisk Station by officers eager to sweep their so-called “ secret weapon ” under the carpet, Honor is even more dismayed to learn the commanding officer of the other Queen ’ s ship assigned to the system picket is an old Academy nemesis.

In another scene, the two main characters are flying through the sky on a magic carpet and, for a moment, Zeus ’ s temple from the movie Hercules can be seen in the background.

She was brought in as costume designer to create the new look for Queen Latifah for her talk show, as well as designing the Queen ’ s Academy Awards red carpet gowns.

Hairs consistent with the van Dams ’ dog were found in his RV, also carpet fibers consistent with Danielle ’ s bedroom carpet.

Gospel meetings were begun in the Good Templars ’ Hall ( Now a carpet shop, once the DSS office ) which was hired for the occasion.

Over the years, he oversaw the introduction of the bandstand ( designed by architect Henry Busch ), fountains, statues, and wrought iron gates as well as establishing the bedding out of annuals in highly designed carpet beds, redesigned Griffin ’ s Pond and introduced water fowl.

These include the procession Dansa de la Mort ( Dance of Death ) in Verges on Maundy Thursday and the Dance of Death, with characters donning skeleton outfits dancing in the streets, the living Way of the Cross in Sant Hilari Sacalm, the floral carpet festival in Arbúcies, the Hobby Horse dance in Sant Feliu de Pallerols, the Ball del Cornut and La Plantada de l ’ Arbre ( The Planting of the Tree ) of May in Cornellà del Terri ... not to mention the major music festivals, some of them internationally renowned, such as Peralada Castle, Cap Roig Garden Festival in Calella de Palafrugell, and Torroella de Montgrí festivals, which draw world-class performers, as well as opera and contemporary music figures.

However the eight-hours day only became as code by a limited governor ’ s decree on 1923 by the governor of Kerman, Sistan and Baluchistan, which controlled the working conditions and working hours for workers of carpet workshops in the province.

‘ Anatolian ’ is used as a last resource when a more specific identification cannot be found ; at which point ‘ Anatolian ’ refers to a carpet made in Turkey.

Fonda and Turner on the red carpet at the 1992 Emmy Award s.

Few lawmen in 1883 put their noses on the carpet and searched for clues in the manner of a Sherlock Holmes ( Holmes had not yet surfaced – his first adventure was published in 1887 ) and not many did the legwork that ended Black Bart ’ s escapades.

In cooperation with Carpet America Recovery Effort ( CARE ) and CLEAR ( Carpet Landfill Elimination And Recycling ), 100 % of the carpet and padding removed by Empire Today ’ s residential, small business and commercial installers that can be recycled, will be recycled.

Since the program ’ s inception, over six million pounds of carpet and padding have been recycled, according to Empire ’ s waste tonnage reporting.

By virtue of the specific language of the miniature painting the carpet composition conveys the spirit and essence of Khayam ’ s poetry, and it does it with a great realistic force.