{"id":87,"date":"2007-06-23T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=87"},"modified":"2007-06-23T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T14:00:28","slug":"egyptian-carpet-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/egypt\/splendours-of-egypt\/egyptian-carpet-cairo","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian carpet &#8211; Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon we visited a carpet factory and our host, an affable\u00a0gentleman with a very big grin, showed us around the floor and told of us the\u00a0improving quality of Egytian carpets and how they were catching up with the Turkish.\u00a0 Walking around the <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/11211-2\/IMG_4786.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Egyptian carpet factory\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"Egyptian carpet factory\" \/>floor and seeing the stacks of carpets on the floor, we couldn&#8217;t quite see the comparison in quality as yet.\u00a0 What did trouble us though were the number of young children working on the floor.\u00a0 This young girl in the picture\u00a0was keen to make eye contact when the manager wasn&#8217;t looking and I felt she was trying to ask for something.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the manager assured us that they do get time to do some schooling and that the money that they are paid helps them to support their family.\u00a0\u00a0We could have done without this visit, however, it\u00a0reminded us of the plight of some children in lesser developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon we visited a carpet factory and our host, an affable\u00a0gentleman with a very big grin, showed us around the floor and told of us the\u00a0improving quality of Egytian carpets and how they were catching up with the Turkish.\u00a0 Walking around the floor and seeing the stacks of carpets on the floor, we couldn&#8217;t [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-splendours-of-egypt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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