What does red carpet mean?
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What does "red carpet" mean?
"Red carpet" is part of several phrases, like "roll out the red carpet" or "only red carpet treatment."
Nowadays, quite literally, red carpets are for entrances to extremely exclusive events. The red carpet symbolizes the status of the guest as well as the status of the host. To say that one gives "red carpet treatment" means that one is giving the best of the best." "To roll out the red carpet" means to provide the best for one's guests."
The tradition of the red carpet is rather ancient and goes all the way back to Greek times or earlier.
Carpets were highly valued artistic and useful items in the ancient world. They were a sign of wealth and class status. The carpets had amazing and elaborate designs. You can see man examples that are still emulated today. Most of these carpets are today called oriental or middleeastern rugs.
To achieve the amazing colors, the weavers had to dye their own materials, from what was available from their own environments, or bought the raw materials from traders from far away lands.
The hardest to make dyes are reds and purples. Purples are hard because of the hardest color, red. To naturally dye wool red, particularly a beautiful rich red is very hard.
Dyes are made from anything like certain plants, minerals and even insects or some kinds of animal by-products.
Therefore, to ancient people, to see a ONLY red carpet -- the most expensive color possible, was very very impressive. It sybolized extreme wealth, much like a very fancy car would today. It was also a very bold way to show one's weath as well.
That's also one of the reasons you see a lot of pictures and paintings of royalty wearing reds and purples. No way was a regular guy going to wear rich beautifully dyed red fur, or lush velvet.
Typical colors were browns, and pale earthy tones.
Good question.
it's the carpet that the celebrties walk on to famous events.
nothing of real importance, it's just where photographers take a lot of their pictures.
people lay red carpet on the floor for dignitaries or important people to walk on...so, it might mean something important..
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