This was a topic chosen by Rummuser. My favorite piece of furniture is this rug which is on the floor in my work room. When I get drowsy from my work or am waiting on my computers to finish something, I just grab a pillow, lay down on the rug and have a quick snooze. It is also a comfortable spot to sit and read a book. We have some short Japanese tables that we can set up and the kids sometimes sit on the rug using the Japanese table for doing homework.The rug is a handmade Persian rug of the Gabbeh design. It is made from wool with traditional dyes for the coloring. The rug is quite thick, so it is very nice to sit or lay on for longer periods of time.
Something mysterious to me is that most Persian rugs do not have any plant or animal patterns on them as this violates the Koran's proscription against depicting living things. The Persian Gabbeh rugs, however, often have only one or two deer, and maybe a tree on a very simple background. This particular one was much too busy with deer, but came for a very good price so that I could both afford it and not be upset with all the usage it gets.
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Hmmmmm, is a rug furniture? That's stretching it a little, isn't it? ;)
Normally I would agree, but this rug is used for sitting, so we treat it differently.
Before I bust my hip joints, my favourite sitting position was the half lotus on a divan or on the floor. I would give anything if I could go back to that life style. In India we have cotton rugs spread on the floor to sleep on or to sit on and some of them can be very colourful. Woollen ones are used in the colder parts of the country and now a days in air conditioned rooms. Otherwise, the climate does not permit the use of them. Ordinary reed mats like the futons are also quite popular.
Rummuser, I got used to sitting on the floor when living in Japan. There it was always a tatami mat, both for sitting and for sleeping.
That begs the question, what constitutes as furniture? Is it simply how we use any given object? What about that old chair that is never used? Does that mean that it's now a decorative bauble and no longer furniture?
I've never really given favorite furniture much thought... As such, I have no favorite item of furniture.
Marf, I should admit that I was deliberately pushing the envelope on the definition of furniture for this one, although I really hadn't given a formal definition much thought!
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