Major Rug Weaving Cultures: Bidjar
Some of the most durable and high-quality rugs come from the Bidjar weaving culture. This culture’s people reside in the...
Choosing an Oriental Rug
Purchasing an Oriental rug to decorate your home can beautifully enhance your décor and style. Before you pick an Oriental rug,...
Oriental Rug Design Origins: Figurative VS Non-Figurative Designs
Determining a rug’s country of origin can be a very difficult task. In most cases, rug historians can examine an...
Classifying Carpets and Rugs
All carpets are rugs, but not all rugs are carpets? In today’s Oriental rug and carpet market, it is typical...
Persian Pahlavi Rugs
Typically, when someone thinks of oriental rugs, he or she automatically associates them with middle-eastern cultures and locations. For a...
Rugs for Special Purposes
Like a work of art, an oriental rug can be used to decorate and bring character into a living...
The Rug Renaissance Part 4
While the migration of Tibetan refugees to Nepal definitely helped kick start the rug renaissance, there are two other international...
Chinese Rugs
It is generally assumed that rug-weaving was brought into China, probably from Turkestan or Mongolia, some time before the reign...
The Origins of Rug Designs
It is impossible to say with any degree of certainty exactly where, when, and how the majority of rug designs...
Rugs of India
In 2000, India exported $190 million worth of carpets to the United States. Yet rug collectors and even some rug...