Buying an Oriental Rug? What You Really Need to Know.

In addition to offering museum-quality antique Oriental rugs, we are the exclusive source for new, historically accurate, museum-quality Oriental rugs, including Persian rugs, Caucasian rugs, and Custom Oriental rugs. 

Exclusive source?  What does this mean?

It means with respect to our new rugs no one else deals exclusively in new, entirely handmade Oriental rugs handcrafted with the same methods, materials, designs, techniques, and traditions, and in most cases made in the same locations, by the same descendents, as the originals.  No one else can make this claim.

Unfortunately, nearly all new Oriental rugs today come from Afghanistan, China, Egypt, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Romania, Tibet and a dozen or so other far-off places far removed from where authentic, indigenously produced Oriental rugs were originally made.  And usually, but not always, these rugs are made from low-quality materials employing cheap, unskilled labor.

Where are our rugs made?

Our rugs are made in the Caucasus, Persia, or Turkey, exactly where the originals were made.

Nearly all of our rugs are Caucasian rugs, Northwest Persian rugs, or Turkish rugs (including Anatolian rugs and Oushak rugs).  Why?

Because these are the most sought-after, most collectible, and most valuable of all Oriental rugs.  In fact, square-foot for square-foot, Caucasian rugs, Northwest Persian rugs, and Turkish rugs hold practically every world auction record for wool, antique Oriental rugs.

Example: Caucasian Star Kazak (world record, Christie's, 2001); Caucasian Eagle Kazak (world record, Freeman's, 2006); Caucasian Kuba Karagashli (world record, Sotheby's, 2004); Northwest Persian Bakhshaish (world record, Sotheby's, 2006); Anatolian / Oushak Lotto carpet (world record, Sotheby's, 2007).

Visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Textile Museum, The Louvre, The Hermitage, or The Victoria & Albert Museum, for example, and one finds Caucasian rugs, Northwest Persian rugs, and Turkish rugs prominently displayed in their collections.

Likewise, glance through any Sotheby's Oriental rug auction catalog, or stroll the floors of the White House or the Diplomatic Reception rooms, and again the overwhelming majority of the rugs are Caucasian rugs, Northwest Persian rugs, and Turkish rugs.

Who makes our Oriental rugs?

We do.  Our weavers.  All of whom are adult women who learned the art of weaving from their mothers and their grandmothers.

Our weavers are highly skilled artisans who earn more than their local teachers or policemen. See how our Oriental rugs are made.

How are our Oriental rugs made?

Our rugs are made entirely by hand, exactly as the originals were made.

We use only pure, hand-spun wool of the highest quality, and pure, all-natural dyes (including all-vegetable dyes and vegetal dyes). For example, it takes hundreds of pomegranates rinds and onion skins just to make one color for several medium-sized rugs.

And all of the above is precisely why I started this business.

I personally collect antique Oriental rugs, I grew up in a family that has a world-class collection of antique Oriental rugs, and as a young adult when I started shopping for new Oriental rugs, I was disheartened with what I saw was available.

As a result of this experience, I decided to start my own company and began making and importing authentic Oriental rugs.

Today, I travel to the region every three to four months to oversee the production.