CARPET DESIGNS, INC.
NAPLES, FLORIDA

Since 1983, our personalized service and extensive product line has made Carpet Designs, Inc. the choice of interior designers and discriminating consumers in Southwest Florida. Our product offerings are unsurpassed in quality and value. We offer the finest broadloom carpets from around the world–from the most intricate patterns to a vast selection of solid colors. Our experts are trained help you select the perfect carpet or rug for any setting. You can choose from nylon, wool, sisal, coir or seagrass carpets–tufted or woven. In the mid-nineteenth century, as the demand for handmade rugs increased in the West, their production increased in the East. The need for easy-to-use and less expensive dyes with wider range of colors caused the development of synthetic dyes in Europe and especially in Germany. Synthetic dyes were soon imported to Persia (Iran), Anatolia (Turkey), and other Eastern countries. The first synthetic dye, Fuchsine (a magenta aniline), was developed in the 1850s. Shortly after, other synthetic aniline dyes followed. Synthetic aniline dyes made from coal tar were brilliant, inexpensive, and easy to use; however, they faded rapidly with exposure to light and water. In 1903 Nasser-e-Din Shah, the Persian king of Qajar Dynasty, banned the use of aniline dyes in Iran. Persian weavers discontinued the use of synthetic dyes until the modern synthetic chrome dyes were developed in the years between the First and the Second World Wars. Chrome dyes are colorfast (any dye that retains its intensity despite exposure to light and water), and are produced in an infinite variety of attractive colors and shades. We invite you to compare for yourself. Our wide selection of products; our knowledge of floor covering fashion, design and workmanship; and most importantly, our commitment to impeccable standards of personalized service. Carpet Designs Inc., of Naples, Florida