The carpet production of the Iberian Peninsula never matched that of Turkey, but it was important enough for its products to be exported around the Mediterranean and beyond, and especially for the Murcian production to come under Christian patronage, both royal and noble. From the surviving examples, and our understanding of their historical progression, it is clear that carpets produced in Spain were made at various levels, some rustic, others urban. What is also clear and truly remarkable is that, despite the disruptions of war, displacement, and forced religious conversion in the late medieval and early modern periods, carpet making remained a quintessential Islamic craft, transmitted over hundreds of years from mother to daughter in an unending chain until the expulsion of the Moriscos in the early 17th century.