Spanish rugs and carpets

By the eighteenth century, the last of the Moors had left Spain, and there was no more rug weaving. Spaniards apparently found it too tedious a business for their tastes.

Oriental rugs, which had always been imported because the local output was small, were brought in in greater numbers to take their place.

The rugs of Spain are usually very long in proportion to their width, perhaps because they were woven for churches and monasteries and the long vaulted halls of Spanish castles.