She picked an expensive carpet, and handed the seller a 500-złoty bill.

She is looking for patterns of wear in the expensive woolen carpet.

And on the floor was a vast, obviously expensive oriental carpet.

It shouldn't have, as this was a truly elegant, expensive carpet, but quality control had been deteriorating everywhere recently.

The most expensive carpets were, and still are, woven in 27-inch sections, which should be sewn together by hand.

Leave it to me to buy the most expensive carpet on the market.

The serious collector of great, and often astronomically expensive, antique carpets can find what he or she wants in the city.

Nowadays if you are poor you buy less expensive carpet and use it all the way up.

"It's a very expensive carpet," he said - about $45,000, imported from Italy.

It had been replaced by an expensive Persian carpet.