it's a CONSPIRACY see??!! They are trying to drive us mad by relocating the SAME afghan!
If that were to be true (and I'm not conceding that it is, mind you
), it would mean that the biggest mystery that DS left unsolved was not Vicki's parentage, not whether Angelique was Miranda's reincarnation or whether the two were one and the same, not even whether Barnabas was still a vampire in 1971 - but how did the afghan so completely retain its vibrant colors while continually being used by so many different people in so many different locations throughout the various centuries?! After all, something like Clorox® II color safe bleach wouldn't be invented until long after the events we witnessed on the original DS took place.
Nay, I find it impossible to believe that even the most magical spell could have kept one single afghan always looking so fresh and breathtakingly splendid...