Oriental and Persian Rugs/carpets
Rooms look empty and cold without carpets in them. Oriental carpets and area rugs add warmth and character to the rooms in which they are used. A room without a rug is like a body without sole. When you want to…
Carpet Concert Los Angeles
Wow!! What a night! Carpet Concert in Levantine Cultural Center in Los Angeles with Rowan Storm and friends with Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Turkish, Greek and more music and folk dances. For the past few carpet concerts in Los Angeles, I…
Rug Appraisers Rug Appraisal
The day before yesterday I went to Venice Beach here in Los Angeles for an in house appraisal of four hand knotted Persian rugs. I got there more than half an hour early. I did not want to bother the…
Ghotogh Persian Rugs: A fine Piece for Sales
Gholtogh Rugs Gholtogh is a very small town in the province of Zandjan in north west Iran. The province of Zangjan is surrounded with seven states of West Azarbayjan, East Azarbayjan, Ardabil, Guilan, Qazvin, Hamedan, and Kurdistan. All of these…
The Legend of the Persian Carpet at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
The Legend of the Persian Carpet On January 18, 2010 I went to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to say good buy to the famous Ardabil and Coronation carpets which had been on display from November 14, 2009….
Persian Carpet Grand Exhibition in Tehran September 23-29, 2009
The 18th Persian Carpet Grand Exhibition will be held in Tehran from September 23 to 29, 2009. This exhibition was held in the month of August each year, but because of the fasting month of Ramadan, the organizer has decided…
Carpet Concert and Persian Rugs in Los Angeles
Yesterday, I was busy with a carpet concert at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) on 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036. Rowan Storm, an American lady who took a 3-month trip to Iran in 2006, was the…
Carpet Concert
Interactive Carpet Concert with Rowan Storm & Friends. Rowan Storm is an American lady who fell in love with Persian music many years ago. She pursued and mastered Daff a Persian frame drum instrument. Rowan traveled to Iran in 2006…
A Homeless Man Paid Cash and Bought A Rug
The day before yesterday around 5:00 pm a homeless man walked into our rug gallery and looked at an area rug which was on a stack of Persian rugs and asked for the price. I treated him well with respect…
Tehran Persian Carpet Exhibition
Tehran to Host Persian Rug Exhibit TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The 17th exhibition of hand-woven Persian rugs is to kick off Friday Aug. 22, 2008 in an area of 20,000 square meters (roughly 200,000 square feet) at Tehran Int`l Fairground….