Fine Hand-Knotted Rugs
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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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Donegal Carpets have been making bespoke (custom) hand-knotted carpets in northwest Ireland for over a century. Through the years Donegal Carpets have graced establishments such as Dublin Castle, the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, Eltham Palace, and the U.S. White House. Donegal Carpets still creates bespoke carpets in the original factory at Killybegs. Since 2005, [...]
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On a recent trip to England, I visited York Minster. Despite my fascination with gothic architecture in all its forms, I found myself running around snapping photos of—of all things—the carpets. (I figured a much better photographer than I had already spent time with the stonework and the medieval stained glass.)
There was [...]
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We visited the Prairie Archives of the Milwaukee Art Museum to do some research and to meet with museum staff about a possible collaboration in anticipation of next year’s exhibition on the works of George Mann Niedecken.
Liz Flaig, the curatorial administrator of the archives, and the other staff were as cordially enthusiastic as we could [...]
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Our collaboration with Michael FitzSimmons, which last year produced the very successful GuildCraft Collection of C.F.A. Voysey designs, is active again on a new collection to be introduced later this year. Inspired by the collaboration between Frank Lloyd Wright and George Mann Niedecken in the first decade of the 20th century, an example of [...]
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Michael McDaid flew over from Ireland to join us for the debut of the GuildCraft Voysey Collection of Arts & Crafts carpets in Chicago. Danielle and I then drove down to the Indianapolis Museum of Art to see the Victoria & Albert Museum’s International Arts&Crafts Exhibition. (The IMA was one of only two venues in [...]
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