All Posts in: Emmett's Oriental Rug Book

• India Rugs: Old World Classics

  07.01.08 | Comment?

  This rug was made in India by Old World Classics and was based on a Safavid period vase carpet.

  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.
  As we have seen elsewhere, George Jevremovic of Woven Legends was influenced […]

• 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: 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]