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• Emmett’s Book, Oriental Rugs Today, Online

  11.12.07 | Comment?

  Emmett’s book, Oriental Rugs Today, was released in its second edition in 2003. It remains essential reading today, and is likely the definitive work on the contemporary Oriental rug market.

• A Renaissance of Oriental Rug Weaving

  11.13.07 | Comment?

  The best Oriental carpets woven today, are more beautiful and of better quality than any woven in the previous seven decades.

• The Decline of Quality in the Twentieth Century

  11.14.07 | 2 Comments

  Over the early and middle decades of the 20th century weavers gradually abandoned the use of their traditional, vegetal dyestuffs and substituted synthetic dyes of poor quality. By shortly after World War II, for all practical purposes, natural dyes in Oriental rugs were a thing of the past.

• The Oriental Rug Renaissance

  11.21.07 | Comment?

  Natasha and I come across new carpets with designs we have seen only in museums. We find rugs that are full of character, rugs with vegetal dyes and handspun wool, gorgeous rugs — and a lot of them, more than we can afford to buy. At some time, unnoticed at first, the world of Oriental rugs entered a renaissance. How did it happen? When did it happen?

• Natural Dyes Rediscovered

  11.26.07 | Comment?

  Phase one of the Oriental rug renaissance was the revival of natural dyeing techniques, spearheaded by the DOBAG project and such visionaries as George Jevremov…

• The Decorative Carpet Movement

  11.27.07 | 2 Comments

  Another important change in fashion was beginning to take shape in the Oriental rug industry, a trend toward what became known as decorative carpets…

• Geopolitical Events and the Oriental Rug Renaissance

  11.28.07 | Comment?

  International political events contributed to the rug renaissance. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Islamic Revolution in Iran…

• Technology and the Oriental Rug Renaissance

  11.29.07 | Comment?

  It is perhaps surprising that a low-tech industry like Oriental rugs could benefit from twentieth-century technology, but information technology, travel and modern communications have all helped to transform the way Oriental rugs are brought to market.

• The Oriental Rug Renaissance - Recap and Timeline

  12.03.07 | Comment?

  Summary and Timeline of the Oriental Rug Renaissance, which started roughly in 1985. Plus some great photos.

• How Oriental Rugs Are Made Today

  12.04.07 | 8 Comments

  The traditional model of how Oriental rugs are made is obsolete. What follows is an account of how rugs are most often woven today.

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