I brought my rugs to other dealers who didn’t want to touch them. There is only one person who does not snicker and sneer when I bring in what my pets have done to my rugs – Job Youshaei. His store has saved damaged rugs that could not have been saved anyplace else. Job, you rescue rugs!
The form of the structure evokes the appearance of a weaving loom. The design of the exterior walls is said to shade the windows, lowering the museum's interior temperature for the benefit
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You may have heard that bamboo silk rugs are hard to clean. Bamboo silk is a lustrous fiber that is spun from the processed cellulose of the bamboo plant. Bamboo is a fast growing
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When a rug gets sun-faded, it's usually just superficial. Shearing the face of the rug reveals the original color below the millimeters of faded wool.
One of our customers requested that we turn remnants of machine-made carpeting that they owned into a custom rug of an unusual shape: an oblong octagon.
Recently, I visited the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. I was so inspired by the experience of seeing carpets from the “Golden Age” of weaving (16th and 17th Century) on
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June 2008: The
A couple of months ago, we wrote about the impact that the rising cost of labor and the changing demand for rugs has had on rug prices. Additionally, material costs that started to creep
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As early as 2006, when he visited approximately 30 hand-weaving factories in Shandong Province, China, Job observed that many of these factories were
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Production of handmade rugs for export has continued to decline. We recently saw an e-mail sent by a manager of weavers in India to a supplier in the U.S. He wrote: “In
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On June 3rd, 2008, a Persian silk Isfahan from the personal collection of Doris Duke, a tobacco heiress turned philanthropist and the Newport Restoration Foundation that she created in 1968 sold
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Thriving financial and real estate markets provide the backbone to a flourishing rug market. New home building or the selling and remodeling of
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This spring another antique oriental rug was written into the history books as the most expensive ever sold – this will be the third record-breaking auction in as
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