The origins of the knotted carpet / Clothilde Galea-Blanc -- The manufacture, restoration, and conservation of carpets / Odile Gellé -- Between a tribal art and a court art: the Turkish carpet / Susan Day -- The carpets of Safavid Persia: gardents of earthly delights / Susan Day -- Poetry and carpets: calligraphic art in the carpets of Iran / Asiyeh Zaia -- The carpets of the Great Moghul: 16th-19th centuries / Valérie Bérinstain -- The carpets of the Middle Kingdom / Valérie Bérinstain -- The carpets of France / Élizabeth Floret and Martine Mathias -- The carpet in Great Britain / Clothilde Galea-Blanc -- The Carpet in Spain and Portugal / Clothilde Galea-Blanc -- The carpets of the Caucasus and elsewhere / Jean-Philippe Follet.