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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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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.
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From the tents of nomads to the finest court ateliers of sultans, mughals, and kings, pile carpets have long symbolized wealth, rank, prestige and luxury.
In the royal court workshops of the Ottoman, Persian, and Indian empires, the design and creation of carpets was the province of highly respected and skilled artisans. Carpets were not [...]
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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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We recently did a project with stained glass artisan Theodore Ellison, who designed a carpet for a private client to coordinate with his “Ashley” art glass window.
The window:
The carpet design:
The carpet was made in India of pure New Zealand wool, which is both soft to the touch and very durable. And of course, RUGMARK-certified [...]
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In case anyone is wondering whether we really do live in a global village, and if the world is flat, I offer the following story.
Once upon a time, there was an architect in New York who saw one of our luscious mohair samples, and decided that it would be perfect for one of their projects. [...]
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A few days ago, we got a call from Cynthia Shaw-McLaughlin, director of the Boettcher Mansion near Golden, CO. We met Cynthia a few months ago at the Arts & Crafts Conference in Asheville and have talked a few times since then.
The Mansion, which must be run by Tracy’s kind of people since they have [...]
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