August 2008
2 posts
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Egyptian Rugs: A Guide to the new rugs from Egypt →
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Gabbeh Rugs →
July 2008
3 posts
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Afghan Rugs and Carpets Guide →
Afghan rugs are genuine, often charming, and usually phenomenally inexpensive.
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Indo-Sarouks: Sarouk Rugs from India →
Indian Sarouk Rugs, or Indo-Sarouks, are Indian rugs made to look like classic Persian Sarouk rugs.
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India Rugs: Old World Classics →
Old World Classics make Mahindra-like rugs and carpets in India in about forty designs, with handspun wool and natural dyes, washed and finished entirely without chemicals.
June 2008
3 posts
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Turkmen Rugs Exhibit in San Francisco →
There’s a fantastic exhibit about Turkmen rugs, called For Tent and Trade: Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving going on at San Francisco’s de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.
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4.5 million dollar Persian rug →
Apparently the most expensive rug ever sold. At less than 6 x 8 feet, the price comes out to about $105,000 per square foot.
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India Rugs: Samad Brothers Oriental Rugs →
Malcolm and David Samad are not interested in literally reproducing antique rugs. Instead, they give their producers in India designs of antique pieces as starting points from which weavers can improvise, and give them specific colors with which to work. The resulting carpets are unlike any made before.
May 2008
4 posts
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Carpets of Israel: Bezalel Rugs of Jerusalem →
Israeli carpets of the Bezalel school in Jerusalem display a unique blend of Jewish, Persian, Turkish and European styles in designs that focus on the Holy Land.
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Rugs of India: Black Mountain Looms →
Teddy Sumner and George Jevremovic were the first people to make Oriental rugs on a commercial scale in modern India with natural dyes and hand-spun wool. Together they formed a project called Black Mountain Looms.
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Rugs of India: Jaipur Tea-wash Carpets →
A new kind of oriental rug emerged from India in the late 1990s, the so-called tea-wash carpet. In the final step of the finishing process, carpets like this are washed in tea and sometimes henna to soften their colors.
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Rugs of India: Gertmenian Carpets →
The Henry Gertmenian Company of San Francisco is one my favorite importers of what we call “mainstream” Indian rugs. These are handmade Oriental rugs with mostly Persian designs, good synthetic dyes and machine-spun wool, and a typical knot-count of between 100 and 200 knots per square inch.