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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 […]

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

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,

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

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 1976, lists more than 800 Peking rugs, most

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,

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

To insure an antique rug, most insurers want a written appraisal that describes the rug and states a value, backed by clear photographs. A useful appraisal records the type, origin, approximate age, size, materials and

You can sell an antique rug in four main ways: directly to a dealer, at auction, on consignment, or through an online marketplace. Selling to a dealer is the fastest and simplest. Auction and consignment

An antique Persian rug can be worth a few hundred dollars or several hundred thousand. On our own site today, the 1,171 antique Persian rugs listed carry asking prices from $300 to $595,000, and half

Often, yes. A restored antique rug can be a sound purchase when the work is done with matching wool and dyes, is stable, is disclosed by the seller, and is reflected in the price. Restoration

The word Sarouk is doing two jobs at once, and knowing which one a dealer means is most of what decides what you should pay. It covers the fine 19th-century weaving of the Farahan plain,