All Posts in: Western Influences

• Western Influences on Oriental Rugs

  01.14.08 | Comment?

  Oriental Rugs Today: Introduction to Part 2 (Rugs by Region)

  Turkmen rug dealers and friends in Islamabad, Pakistan, 1989.

  The following chapters are comprised of discussions and critiques of new Oriental rugs found in the market today, country by country. Stories of a few of the movers and shakers behind them are interspersed. These are interesting people […]

• Technology and the Oriental Rug Renaissance

  11.29.07 | Comment?

  Egyptian weaver working at a loom near Cairo, 1998.

  Oriental Rugs Today: Chapter 1 Part 6
  One last factor has motivated the renaissance, and that is technology. It is perhaps surprising that a low-tech industry like Oriental rugs could benefit from twentieth-century technology, but such is the case. First of all, the information available to Western rugmakers […]