Hand-Knotted Arts and Crafts Rug Collections
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Carpet History
Photos from our workshop
Here are some pictures from our workshop in India. (Please note the adult artisans!) The photos show some of the steps involved in the process of making a hand-knotted rug.
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Custom Projects
The Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion project
We just received these photos of our Pabst sample on loom. It's very encouraging to finally see this design take on a three-dimensional life.
This sample is being woven of Himalayan wool using the Tibetan cut-loop weaving technique. Making a sample, sometimes referred to as a "hand trial" or "strikeoff", is often part of the process of creating a custom carpet. This allows us to confirm the color choices and color matching, and provide a more accurate representation of the look and feel of the finished carpet.
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General Business
What To Do with New Designs…
Bloggers whose core business is not blogging face a unique set of challenges. It's hard enough to keep a blog filled with new and interesting content when blogging/publicity/PR/social media is your business; it's even harder to do when writing a blog post is not a core competency, but just one more thing on an already packed to-do list. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.
Anyway, after a recent Twitter conversation about this with award-winning interior designer Tobi Fairley , I was inspired by her short, sweet, and colorful post about a recent purchase. I thought, "Hey! I can do ... continued
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Events
Are they really worth a thousand words? You tell us.
We have several new photo albums on our Flickr page, and we're adding more sets and photos all the time.
In addition to the recent set of photos from our weaving workshop, we also have a growing assortment of pictures of custom order carpets and photographs of our carpets in clients' homes.
View all sets on our Flickr page.
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