there is a gap of almost 1,700 years between the example from pazyryk and the eariest seljuq carpets from anatolia of the thirteen century.however,the pre-isalamic carpet fragments from the al-sabah collection,details of which are presented here for the first time,reduce this gap to around 600 years,providing us with examples from the second to the sixth century,following which there is a break that the last until the thirteenth century,but this is no longer considered a major gap.