We have a weekly meeting on Monday evenings at the Flame Restaurant, the Camden House in Beverly Hills. The organizer of the meeting is the Coalition of Iranian Entrepreneurs, in Farsi called AHAM. The meeting starts at 6:00 pm with…
Several customers stopped by our rug gallery today, but non of them bought any thing. A gentleman brought in a very fine Persian Tabriz with silk foundation for cleaning and repair. It was awfully dirty. The size was 10 x…
After I closed my rug gallery around 4:30 pm yesterday which was Sunday, and a very slow Mother’s day, my wife and I went to a Jazz concert in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in down town Los Angeles. It…
It is Sunday and a very slow mother’s day in Los Angeles. I am at work. I sold two 2 x 8 feet runners, area rugs this morning after I opened our store. A customer who had a Nepalese rug…
I went to a customer’s home last evening in Alhambra a city near Los Angeles. This customer had water damage problem couple of weeks ago. I went to his home and picked up his rugs. Two of his three rugs…
It is Saturday afternoon around 5:00 pm. It was one day before the mother’s day, but we did not have any serious customer. I thought we might sell few items. A couple walked in this morning and said they just…
I got very busy this morning for a few minutes. While I was showing some rugs to a customer who needed several rugs, a young lady walked in and said she had an Oriental rug for appraisal. I asked her…
A friend e-mailed me few days ago and mentioned that she spilled tea on her Tabriz carpet. She wanted to know how she could take care of the problem. This is what I wrote to her: Tea- Stain Removal on…
It is 7:45 am in Los Angeles and I am at work in my rug gallery in Los Angeles. I had a lecture and video presentation last night at the California State University Northridge here in Los Angeles on Persian…
We sold a hand knotted Persian Nain rug from our web site on the Internet last evening. We received the money through our PayPal account. It was a dark Blue background 6′ 6″ x 10 feet sold for $1,050 to…