The first known document from Brașov related to rug trade was written between 1462 and 1464. Vigesimal accounts for various towns are preserved and bear evidence of the large amount of carpets transported through Transylvania. The extent of this trade can be judged from the Braşov vigesimal (customs) register of 1503, which recorded the declaration of more than 500 rugs within one single year. However, Pakucs-Willcocks (2014) argues that in 1503 the trade volume may have been exceptionally large because the usual trade route via Venice was temporarily cut off during the Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503).