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Hand Woven Modern Rugs - A Winning Combination
May 1st 2010: For a truly stylish, quality statement for your floor, why not consider a modern design rug made to the exacting standards of traditional, hand-weaving...
Rugs Go Back To Black
October 1st 2009: Maybe it's the recession sending people back to basic colour schemes, but black is proving to be one of the most sought after rug colours online...
Colour Trends for the Year Ahead
May 1st 2009: One great source of ideas for your home is in fact in Britain’s thriving paint business ! We have a number of world leading paint companies in this country, and they spend a great deal of effort researching what colours are likely to appeal for our homes...
World's Most Expensive Rug
April 15th 2009: What's at the very top end of the rug world ? Well, a treasured historical rug has just sold at Sotheby's in Doha, Qatar, for $5.5 million - though this was in fact below rumoured prices...
President Obama's Rug Dilemma
April 10th 1009:I Just Love that Rug...January saw a coming together of the US Presidents, with George Bush, George Bush Senior, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, plus new President Barack Obama, lined up for photos. In front of them was the Oval Office carpet...
A Brief History of Rugs
March 30th 2009: Rug making is one of the great ancient crafts. Rugs were certainly in use by early Neolithic times (New Stone Age, starting around 7000BC) using fleece from the growing practice of keeping herds of sheep and goats...
Rug Making Techniques
Rugs can be broadly classified into Flat Weave Rugs and Pile Rugs. Flat weave is the earliest known method of carpet-making and is based on a simple weaving of vertical (warp) and horizontal (weft) threads...
Rug Materials
March 20th 2009: Wool is one of the oldest known textile fibres, and is the chief fibre used in hand knotted fine Oriental rugs, as well our hand tufted contemporary rugs. The qualities that ancient societies valued in wool apply just as much today...
Rug Care
March 10th 2009: Regular vacuuming helps maintain the life and lustre of a rug, and can prevent surface dirt and dust from getting deeper into the pile where it is harder to remove...
Colour Advice
Mar 1st 2009: Customers often seek a rug to match a room's walls, furniture or fabrics, and want a specific colour to work with what they already have in the room...
Rugs and Interior Design Ideas
February 20th 2009: New ideas for decorating your home are constantly emerging from the world of interior designers and colour specialists. Here we look at some of the latest designer thinking to help you choose the best rug for your room...
World's First Flash Mob Target Rug at Macys
January 31st 2009: Ever seen a Flash Mob in action ? It's a goup of people who, tipped off by an internet group, gather in a particular location and suddenly break into some activity for a short while, before mysteriously dispersing...