The more I learn about Oriental rugs, the more baffled I become. In my experience, choosing one is the single most difficult home design decision one can make. That’s because so many factors ...

Rugs are by no means a new thing. Ask any interior designer — or historian. One of the oldest rugs, called the Pazyryk carpet, ever discovered surfaced in 1949, and now resides in the Hermitage Museum ...

WICHITA, KAN. – In Iran, a handmade rug of wool or silk is the main furnishing of a room. “No matter how rich or poor, you have rugs,” says Ali Raisdana, owner of Persian Bazaar Gallery in ...

Persian rugs face growing competition from rugs made in other countries, to the point where prices are often as much as 40 percent less than they were 15 years ago, Borhani said.

I sent him pictures of four rugs I thought were Turkish. Two are what he called “Af-Pak refugee rugs.” Likely made in Afghanistan, they harken back to the days after Russia invaded Afghanistan ...