Old rug
A worn rug on the floor of a long-used room — the record of years of footsteps held in cloth.
An old rug in a dream is the dream's image of years of household life recorded in cloth. The rug shows where the feet went most, where the chair sat, where the spill happened that never fully came out. The dream brings the old rug when something in your life — a long-running household, a marriage, a workplace — has begun to wear in patterns that record what was actually lived rather than what was claimed. An old rug honoured and repaired is the dream affirming that the record is being kept. An old rug thrown out for a new one before its patterns were read is the dream noting that the evidence of what the house actually did was discarded along with the wear.