All Posts in: Old vs New Rugs

• New Oriental Rugs that Look Old

  01.09.08 | Comment?

  This carpet is a Fine Rubia produced by Woven Legends, and is about 10 feet by 15 feet.

  Oriental Rugs Today: Chapter 3 Part 5
  Oriental rugs improve with use. Colors soften, the wool pile grows polished and lustrous. Even the nicks and stains old rugs accumulate add character. For at least a hundred years, rug sellers […]

• Old Oriental Rugs vs New Oriental Rugs

  12.05.07 | Comment?

  Oriental Rugs Today: Chapter 3 Part 1
  Collectors of old rugs don’t like new Oriental rugs, or haven’t until recently, and if they like them now, it is only with reluctance. Interior designers have a similar attitude. They are preoccupied with a ‘look’, and they associate that look with old rugs. But they are pragmatic, and […]

• How Oriental Rugs Are Made Today

  12.04.07 | 2 Comments

  Oriental Rugs Today: Chapter 2
  Most books on Oriental rugs describe how Oriental rugs were made in some distant time — without mentioning that what they describe is an idealized model that no longer applies. The men of the family are said to shear lambs of their wool, which the women then weave into rugs, guided […]