Persian Oriental and area rugs market has been slow lately in Los Angeles. Instead, we have been busy with Oriental carpet cleaning, repair, stain removal and appraisal. This brings income and traffic and some of the customers who give us…
Abbas Sayahi is a great master dyer who lives in Shiraz, Iran. He has a big dyeing plant and workshop in the suburb of Shiraz (Sultanabad) where he uses different local herbs and plants to dye the yarns for different…
More than any other types of damages, we receive rugs which are damaged by moths. Many people store the rugs in dark and humid places without vacuuming or cleaning them for a long time. There are so much protein and…
We received a severely moth damaged hand knotted Pakistani rug for repair. This rug was not vacuumed and was not cleaned for many years. It was left in a dark room upstairs in this customer’s house in Hollywood in Los…
We have received many Kilims (also spelled kelims or in Persian gelims) for cleaning, repair and color bleeding problems in the past few days. Kilims are very decorative and can be used as floor covering, wall hanging, table or sofa…
Few days ago a customer called us and wanted us to do a dog urine stain removal on her hand knotted Persian silk Qum rug. This is how it was and how it became.
The July Atlanta Rug Show was held in Atlanta, Georgia from July 13 to 16, 2008. Oriental Rug Retailers of America in cooperation with the organizer of the rug show, the AmericasmArt, held a series of talks and seminars and…
The AmericasMart, holds the Atlanta Rug Show which is the world’s largest single collection of fine handmade, machine-made and antique rugs. Contrary to its European counterpart DOMOTEX which holds a big rug show in Hannover in Germany, the Atlanta Rug…
The Atlanta Rug show was held in Atlanta from July 13 to 16, 2008. I visited the show and had a lecture and video presentation there on the Green Rugs of the Qashqai tribe. I will write about his in…
We have few rug designs called cartoon in our rug gallery to show to our customers to see how Persian carpets are made. A designer draws the cartoon on a graph paper and then a painter paints and dyes the…