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• 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 | 2 Comments

  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 […]

• Pakistani Rugs: Q Mark, Pamir, Hazara Looms

  04.29.08 | Comment?

  This luscious rug was produced by an emerging company called Q Mark in Pakistan, woven by Afghan refugees.

  Q Mark and Pamir have woven rugs for in Pakistan for several years and are just now emerging with good, new productions. Hazara looms have put production on hold due to a migration of weavers back to Afghanistan.
  In […]

• Khal Mohammadi Rugs

  04.29.08 | 1 Comment

  And Afghan Khal Mohammadi rug.

  One of my favorite productions from the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan is called Khal Mohammadi. I am puzzled about where their designs spring from. They are recognizably Turkmen in character, but unlike any Turkmen designs I have seen.

• Pakistani Rugs: Art Resources

  04.25.08 | Comment?

  Pakistani Farahan oriental rug by Art Resources. Art Resources treats its wool with respect, never allowing it to be injured.

  Art Resources creates great, old-looking oriental rugs in Pakistan, without distressing them with chemicals. Look for them to become one of the major oriental rug productions of our era.
  Art Resources is one of my favorite […]

• Pakistani Rugs: Chris Walter

  04.17.08 | Comment?

  Chris Walter has quietly created one of the very best and largest productions of natural-dyed oriental rugs in the world in three separate businesses.
  In our last post we mentioned that some Westerners take a very active role producing rugs in the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. One of the earliest of these special rugmkers was […]