The loop piled rugs woven on the Los Alpujarras hills south of Granada have been known for a considerable time. Early this century they were given more importance possibly than is accorded to them now. Vitall Benguiat for example thought one sufficintly important to include it in the most important section of his sale (The V. and L. Benguiat Collection of Rare Old Rugs, American Art Association sale catalogue, New York, 4 December 1925, lot 24 (ill.), date altered from 1803). Cornelia Bateman Faraday (European and American Carpets and Rugs, Michigan, 1929) devotes a considerable amount of space to them. The looms on which they were woven were narrow, necessitating their manufacture in (usually three) vertical panels which were then joined. The designs were often influenced by the Cuenca interpretations of Anatolian designs; the chrysanthemums in the present border are typical.

Another feature which occurs in a number of examples is the central rectangular panel. This can be found surrounded by an inscription which is often dated, the Benguiat example already noted being an example. Another rug, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, whose design includes vases of flowers, is dated 1797 (Bennett, Ian: The Country Life Book of Rugs and Carpets of the World, London, 1977, p.269).