An antique Afshar is the rug that people fall for in a shop and then assume they cannot afford, right up to the point they look at the ticket. It is a hand knotted wool […]
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An antique Bessarabian is the European flat woven carpet that most buyers meet without a name for it: large roses or garlands drawn boldly on a dark ground, no pile at all, and a scale
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What an antique Ningxia carpet is, how to tell an 18th century piece from a later one, and the ten Ningxia carpets in the Rugs On Net collection in New York.
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An antique Bakhtiari is the rug you buy when the room is too big for most antiques and you do not want a medallion in the middle of it. It comes from the Chahar Mahal
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What a Safavid Isfahan carpet is, how to recognize and date one, and a close look at the mid-17th century example in the Rugs On Net collection in New York.
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An antique Serab rug is the answer to a question most rug guides never ask: what do you put in a hallway that is twelve, fifteen, nineteen feet long? Serab is a village weave from
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An antique Bidjar rug is the heaviest thing most people will ever put on a floor, and almost everything else about buying one follows from that. It is a hand-knotted wool carpet from the town
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An authentic antique Oushak is a hand-knotted rug woven in and around Usak in western Turkey, usually in the late 19th or early 20th century. A reproduction is a newer rug in an Oushak design,
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The best online stores for antique Caucasian and tribal rugs are specialist dealers who photograph the back and ends of every rug, give measured sizes and a circa date, disclose repairs and reduced sizes, and
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You can buy an antique Peking rug from specialist antique rug dealers, online galleries and some auction houses. Rugs On Net, a family-owned New York gallery since 1979, lists more than 800 Peking rugs, most
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An authentic antique rug is handmade, about 100 years old or more, and honestly described. Check the back for individual knots, the fringe for warp ends rather than sewn-on trim, the colors for natural variation,
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The best place to buy an antique Persian rug is a specialist seller who inspects every rug, lists its measured size, origin, age and materials, shows the back on request, puts its return terms in
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