As a kid in the 60s and 70s he'd moan at his "posh" parents with their woollen carpets and varnished floors, standard comforts his mates never had.
The remarkable textiles recovered from the Pazyryk burials include the oldest woollen knotted-pile carpet known, the oldest embroidered Chinese silk, and two pieces of woven Persian fabric (State Hermitage Museum, St . Petersburg.
The result: wooden carpet.
These villagers are traditionally involved in activities such as cleaning and spinning of wool and weaving woollen items like shawls, pullovers, carpets, panki (blanket) and jackets, along with small-scale agriculture.
Sometimes the corpses are wrapped in the kinds of woollen blankets that Robles used for her "Red Carpet".
A leading carpet manufacturer is hoping to make their woollen floorings sexy by teaming up with the world-famous shoe designer for a new advertising campaign.
Then there are the carpets – of the hand-knotted silk variety, and woollen kilims of all sizes and designs.
And of course Obadiah Oak, the village's literal and proverbial last peasant, who "exudes the aromas of wet leather and horse manure, costive dogs, turnips, rainwater and cabbage water, sausages, verdigris, woollen socks, Leicester cheese, fish guts, fraying curtains, mice under the stairs, mud on the carpet and woodlice behind the pipes".
Although the exact origins of carpet weaving have not been determined, it is known that the Egyptians of the 3rd millennium bc wove carpets for the most part of linen ornamented by sewn on brightly coloured pieces of woollen cloth.
