May 2008 Archive

• Fun Rugs

  12 Wacky Animal Rugs and Critter Carpets

  05.29.08 | 4 Comments

  Nine mammal, fish and bird rugs. Two bonus mythical creature rugs. And the last one, you decide.

• Israel Carpets

  Carpets of Israel: Bezalel Rugs of Jerusalem’s Arts and Crafts Movement

  05.28.08 | Comment?

  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.
  When most people think of Oriental carpets, Israel doesn’t come to mind. Yet there is a distinctly Jewish style of Oriental rug, developed by the arts-and-crafts-inspired Bezalel Academy in […]

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, India Rugs

  Rugs of India: Black Mountain Looms

  05.26.08 | Comment?

  An Indian-made Black Mountain Looms rug in a Persian vase carpet pattern.

  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.
  Mr. Sumner studied painting as a fine arts major in […]

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, India Rugs

  Rugs of India: Jaipur Tea-wash Carpets

  05.22.08 | Comment?

  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 — two natural dyes, after all — to soften their colors.
  9/9 Jaipurs, as they are known to those in the […]

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, India Rugs

  Rugs of India: Gertmenian Carpets

  05.18.08 | Comment?

  This 12 by 18-foot Indo-Kashan (Kashan made in India) is a perfect example of the excellent and beautiful new Oriental rugs coming out of India today. This carpet, imported by the Henry Gertmenian Company of San Francisco, was based on a Persian Kashan that in turn was based on a sixteenth-century Persian vase carpet.

  The Henry […]

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, India Rugs

  Rugs of India: worth a second look

  05.13.08 | 1 Comment

  A new “tree of life” rug made in India.

  The rugs of India have gotten leagues better in the past quarter century. Oriental rug lovers everywhere have started to notice.
  In 2000, India exported $190 million worth of carpets to the United States. Yet rug collectors and even many rug dealers know almost nothing about the rug […]

• Emmett's Oriental Rug Book, Pakistani Rugs

  Pakistani Rugs: I.M. International

  05.06.08 | Comment?

  Pakistani Sultanabad by I.M. International, 8 feet 7 inches by 11 feet 8 inches.

  As I was finishing the first edition of this book, a new Pakistani production was coming on line called I. M. International. We had seen the company’s first rugs and were so impressed that we suggested they were among the best in […]