Pirot is the seat of the prefecture for the department of the same name, with a tribunal, several schools and a custom-house.
Pirot has a medieval fortress, believed to have been built on the site of the Roman fortress Quimedava, on the military road leading from Old Naissus to Philippopolis.
The town is of great strategical importance, for which reason the Russian plenipotentiaries at the Berlin congress (1878) stubbornly tried to include it within the Bulgarian frontier, while Austria and some other Powers insisted that it should be given to Servia.
On Pirot’s rug geometric motifs are dominating and one of the most often is a rhombus – ornament with pre-historic tradition that also appears on ceramics, metal and bronze.
There are two kinds of wool: fleece wool – sheared once in a year from living sheep, and sheet wool – taken off from leather of slaughtered sheep.
After the rug is done a girl from ordering party’s house or the bride, whose wedding preparations a rug was for, would bring a round bread, cheese and onions.
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