9179 Rose

Rose TAP9179

Fully Woven Size 144 x 70
cms (54 x 27 inches)

The rose is one of the
oldest flowers known to
man, and still one of the
most popular.
Nebuchadnezzar used
them to adorn his palace
and in Persia, where they
were grown for their
perfume oil, the petals
were used to fill the
Sultan's mattress.

The Rose is the flower of
love. It was created by
Chloris, the Greek
goddess of flowers, but of
a lifeless body of a nymph
which she found one day
in a clearing in the woods.

She asked the help of
Aphrodite, the goddess of
love, who gave her
beauty; Dionysus, the god
of wine, added nectar to
give her a sweet scent,
and the three Graces gave
her charm, brightness and
joy. Then Zephyr, the
West Wind, blew away the
clouds so that Apollo, the
sun god, could shine and
make the flower bloom.
And so the Rose was.