Hand-knotted
carpets were specially made in
Tibet to celebrate the birth of a girl by her mother. According to Researchers,
Tibetan refugees started crossing the
Himalayan home in April 1959, within the wake of the
Dalai Lama’s flight into exile and landed mostly in
Nepal and
India. Tibet carpets historically were practical, everyday objects, woven locally to be used in homes and monasteries where they might over
time wear out and be discarded. There .