Carpets were woven in Anatolia, Spain, the Maghrib, Egypt and Syria, greater Iran, Transcaucasia, India, and Central Asia. Each area developed its own particular techniques, materials, and designs for carpet weaving, reflecting the circumstances and traditions of that area. The early courtly traditions of many of these regions served as a classical model that left a deep influence on later commercial carpet weaving. At the same time, tribal nomadic weaving traditions, of great antiquity but with few early surviving examples, constituted a major source of carpets in the Maghrib, Transcaucasia,