Today is the day 6 and the last day of our Certified Rug Specialist course. We are supposed to be in the class at 9:00 am to take the test which has two parts, the written part comprising 50 questions…
On the 5th day of our Certified Rug Specialist class, we had 25 rugs from different regions of Iran and also from other countries to identify. The range of identifying the rugs was from missing 2 to 8. I missed…
Today was Thursday and the 4th day of Certified Rug Specialist class held by Restoration Industry Association in Dallas, Texas. Instructors Ellen Amirkhan and Aaron Groseclose talked about non-Iranian rugs such as Indian rugs, Pakistani rugs, Chinese rugs, Afghan rugs,…
Today was the third day of our Certified Rug Specialist class. The instructor Ellen Amirkhan talked about the exam we should take at the end of the class and handed out a form we had to sign and turn in…
Today was Tuesday and the second day of our Certified Rug Specialist class. After having breakfast, I met with other participants in the lobby of our hotel and then we all took the shuttle to the Oriental Rug Cleaning Company…
I am in Dallas, Texas to attend a one-week rug school to become Certified Rug Specialist. This advanced course is offered every two years. I was extremely busy with work in Los Angeles, but did not want to miss this…
We have online chat on our web site. A customer chatted with me for a few minutes and got a quote from me for rug cleaning. He showed up in less than half an hour and brought us one Moroccan…
There is a very informative and up to date web site called Jozan. I visit this cool web site very often. It has a good calendar of events and Ivan Soenderholm the moderator is a rug enthusiastic who lives in…
Yesterday, we had two customers, a husband and a wife looking for an 8 x 11 feet area rug. They messed up our store and liked/disliked many pieces. Finally, they selected one piece. The wife said I would also like…
After being very slow for a few days, we had a very busy Saturday today. We were at work from 12:00 to 5:30 today. We had appointments with few customers. All of them showed up. One of them bought an…