Oakland, CA—October 21, 2014—Claremont Rug Company today released its 76th catalog, which features antique rugs from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving in a wide range of contemporary ...

A total of 50 Second Golden Age antique rugs woven ca. 1800 to ca. 1875 in a variety of Persian and Caucasian weaving styles will be displayed for a limited time on the Gallery’s website (http ...

Jan David Winitz’s Claremont Rug Company (www.claremontrug.com), founded in 1980, is an international art gallery with an inventory of 2500 Oriental rugs woven during the “Second Golden Age of ...

PHILADELPHIA — George Jevremovic didn't set out to become the savior of the Oriental rug trade. He wanted to be a writer until he followed his college girlfriend to her native Turkey in 1979 ...

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"But if the weaver is in a good mood, he'll weave in some lucky charms. There is a whimsicality to the Persian rug. You really get a glimpse into the mind of the weaver and how he sees the world." ...

But the story of Oriental rugs goes back so much further — try 3000 B.C., when Nomadic tribes in Mongolia and Turkey used hair from their camels and sheep to weave carpets to keep their earthen ...

Since Zemfira Kajarova arrived in the hill village of Kosalari in southern Georgia as a newly wed almost 50 years ago, she has devoted herself to weaving the village’s distinctive Persian-style ...

Interestingly, most of its creators in bygone eras were women. Abzari said that in addition to their aesthetic delights, Persian rugs are somehow a cultural medium. For instance, if you were to ask ...

Armed with a translation of the “Divan of Hafez,” a collection of poems by the 14th-century Persian writer whose work a rug merchant assures Murphy is essential to know for a true ...