June 2008 Archive

• Oriental Rug Events, Turkmen Rugs

  Turkmen Rugs Exhibit in San Francisco

  06.24.08 | Comment?

  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.
  More than 40 interesting pieces of Turkmen weaving, many quite old, should entice any San Francisco area local with an interest in Central Asian art to make it […]

• Persian Rugs

  4.5 million dollar Persian rug

  06.21.08 | Comment?

  The rug that sold for 4 and a half million dollars.

  In what was reputedly the biggest sale in Oriental and Persian rug history, Christie’s Auction house in New York sold a four-hundred-year-old silk Persian Isfahan carpet for a cool $4,450,500 earlier this month. The rug is 5′7″ by 7′7″ and is believed to have been […]

• India Rugs, Oriental Rugs Today

  India Rugs: Samad Brothers Oriental Rugs

  06.20.08 | Comment?

  Carpet imported from India by Samad Brothers. Dream Collection rugs like this one, though there are many different designs in the series, have a recognizable character, associated more with European than Middle Eastern or Asian design.

  Two of the most eloquent gentlemen in the Oriental rug business are David Samad and Malcolm Samad. David and Malcolm […]

• India Rugs, Oriental Rugs Today

  India Rugs: Rugs by Robinson

  06.20.08 | Comment?

  This wonderful Indian carpet ftom Rugs by Robinson of Atlanta, Georgia in many ways represents the state of the art of decorative carpets in our rug renaissance.

  You should know about the fine Indian carpets formerly imported by Rugs by Robinson. Some are still in the market, and they are beautiful and very well made.
  They […]

• Oriental Rugs Today

  Rugs of India: Zamin Carpets

  06.05.08 | Comment?

  An Indian Zamin carpet by Yayla Tribal Rugs.

  A familiar name resurfaces in India at this point in our story, Chris Walter. We have seen that Mr. Walter was the pioneer of natural dyeing in Pakistan and that, besides producing rugs in Pakistan, he created a natural dye production in Nepal — perhaps the only production […]

• India Rugs, Oriental Rugs Today

  Rugs of India: Mahindra Carpets

  06.05.08 | Comment?

  This Indian Mahindra rug might be a detail from an old pictorial Mughal carpet. Today’s rug designers often create rugs from enlarged designs of old rugs.

  Today, Black Mountain Looms no longer exists, but Teddy Sumner continues to produce Mahindras, the line of carpets formerly woven in India by Black Mountain Looms. Mahindras have been powerfully […]