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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,

An antique Baluch rug is the least expensive way into genuinely old tribal weaving, and the reason is worth understanding before you shop. Across the 56 antique Baluch rugs we had in stock on 23

An antique Aubusson rug is a French carpet woven as flat tapestry rather than knotted pile, produced in and around the town of Aubusson in central France, mostly during the 18th and 19th centuries. This

An antique Caucasian rug is a hand knotted or flatwoven rug made in the mountain belt between the Black Sea and the Caspian, in what is now Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and the southern Russian republics,

Malayer is the antique Persian rug that most buyers have handled without knowing its name. It is a village weave from west central Persia, made in and around the town of Malayer between Hamadan and

Every colour in an antique rug arrived there in a dye vat. Until the middle of the nineteenth century there was no other option: reds came from madder root and cochineal insects, blues from indigo,

A knot is the unit a hand knotted rug is made of. The weaver ties a short length of yarn around the warp threads, row after row, and the cut ends of those knots become

A rug’s foundation is the grid of threads the rug is built on: the vertical warps that run the length of the loom and the horizontal wefts that cross them. Everything else, the knots, the