Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, Inc. (TMA/SC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1985. TMASC presents monthly educational programs, discussions, field trips, and special events focused on handmade textiles, weavings, Oriental carpets and costumes from around the world. Its…
It was Thursday today and we had a very busy day. A young man in early 20’s who had come to our store few days ago asking for a business card, came in today with his mum. They bought 4…
Rug blogs can be a wonderful way to make communication between the rug professionals easy. Yet, this means is not used and utilized by the dealers, scholars, and others to dessiminate information between them. We rug dealers do not like…
Carpet and Rug Market has become very fragile in Los Angeles as it is in many other cities and states. I spoke to a couple of rug and carpet dealers yesterday and they were all complaining about the market. There…
Because of the Valentine’s Day and the President’s Day, we had a rug sale for a few days with a Rug Sale sign on the front of our store on La Cienega Blvd, in Los Angeles. It worked and several…
We were busy yesterday and I could not post a report on my rug blog. In the morning, I sold a 10′ 2″ x 2′ 7″ Nain runner to a lady who walked in and looked for a bright color…
It was a kind of holiday today since it was the President’s Day. Post offices, schools, banks, and schools were closed today. Shops, businesses, and department stores were open and many of them has sales. We had a busy day….
Yesterday, we had a meeting in the Textile Museum Associates of Southern California TMA/SC (TMASC) in Los Angeles. The speaker was Peter Pap, a well known Oriental carpet expert who lives and works in San Fransisco. He had brought many…
During the past couple of days, we were busy with selling several area rugs, couple of Indian and Afghan rugs, and three pieces of Persian Nain,Gbbeh and Sarouk rugs. Few customers almost killed us by bargaining a lot. On the…
A lady came in the morning looking for a 10 x 14 Persian Kerman rug with very neutral and earth tone colors. I said the type of rug you’re looking for might be from anywhere but Kerman. She said that…