COLOR
Though red is usually associated with Spanish fabrics, many of their rugs are predominantly blue and yellow. Others are green and white, or red and blue. There is usually some shade of a third color for accent, and often browns and ivories.
Color schemes are simpler than in Persian rugs, but old Spanish rugs are very lovely because they are mellowed and softened by age.
Alpujarra Rugs—must be talked about separately because they are the informal peasant rugs of Spain. Their clear-cut geometric patterns will remind you of our own Early American coverlets, and they were made for bed and furniture covers as well as for floors.
They are woven in the homes of the Alpujarra mountain valleys south of Granada, perhaps first by the Moors who migrated there after their fall from power.
These rugs have a low looped pile, not unlike our own hooked rugs in texture.
