Aaru

Some of the first floor coverings in history can be traced back to ancient Egypt in 3000 BC. To color textiles, artists used a plant indigenous to Egypt, dyer’s woad, that yielded a potent blue dye. Blue has special meaning in the culture, representing fertility, birth and rebirth. White linen clothing was the uniform of ancient Egypt. Hence the color white became so closely associated with daily life, that it was frequently used in art to symbolize the transcendent nature of life. A'aru in ancient Egyptian mythology means heavenly paradise.