February 2008 Archive

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, Tibetan Rugs

  Tibetan Rugs, Rugs from Nepal

  02.17.08 | Comment?

  Tibetan rugs are now some of the brightest stars in the oriental rug market. Just twenty-five years ago things could not have been more different. Here’s the story.
  In 1949 the Chinese invaded Tibet, and inadvertently changed the modern history of Oriental carpets. Before then, Tibetans made rugs for their own uses, which often involved religious […]