Fine Hand-Knotted Rugs
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Guildcraft Carpets is one of the companies featured in the 2010 GoodWeave Rug Sourcebook, a full-color, hands-on resource guide for interior designers.
The Sourcebook will debut at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York March 18-21. If you’re there, stop by the GoodWeave booth (#774) to say hello and pick up copy.
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This weekend was the 23rd annual Arts & Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. This is the Main Event for devotees of the Arts & Crafts Movement – antiques, reproductions, artisans, educational workshops, you name it. An eclectic bunch of people are drawn in every year by their common love of [...]
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There was a web piece on MSNBC last week about the work of the GoodWeave organization. In addition to being happy every time the work of Goodweave is noted in the media, I was also pleasantly surprised to see that the piece also included some words of wisdom from an old friend, John Howe, who [...]
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We’ve been woefully lax in our blogging, and I have several project updates to do. I just added this photo of the Prairie-style design we did for a client earlier this year, based on her custom art glass window.
You can read more about the origin of the design, and stained-glass artisan Theodore Ellison, on my [...]
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I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Leann Harms of Design Trade Magazine for an article about social media. Design Trade is, as its title suggests, a trade magazine for interior designers. (Their blog, headed by Leann, is actually a lot more fun.)
You can read the interview online.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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