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Flokati Rugs



Flokati rugs have a very lond history, Greeks have been using them for ages. They are a part of Greek tradition. It issupposed that flokati rugs have been born in high mountain regions of Pindos. At first local inhabitants used flokati-rugs buy to protect themselves from bad weather conditions or as a clothing.

It is much later that the native inhabitant of Pindos moutains started to sell flokati rugs to the bordering countries(for example Macedonia).
Flokati rugs can be made of a great variety of different materials but the most common and widely used flokati rugs material is wool. That wool comes frome high mountain sheep and that makes flokati rugs soft and smooth but strong, durable and suitable for use in areas with high traffic at the same time.


Presently a big part of flokati rugs is hand-made. They are not cheap but the very unique design will give yo uthe incompareble sense of originality.

You can never find two similar hand-woven flokati rugs.
There are a huge amount of different shapes and sizes of flokati rugs available. Decoration of floor and walls in your room is not the only way of using your flokati rugs. As long as they have very deep and warm pile of any colors you can put them on your favorite arm-chair as a type of blanket and that will give you a special fine look and feel.
The maintainance of flokati rugs is not a difficult task. Yoy can wash then safely in a washing machine(but use a "wool" mode with low temperature). All their great qualities make flokati rug very practical and useable in many different applications.
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