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The best place to buy beautiful hand woven rugs
Over 6000 Oriental rugs on display. Offering more choice and better value than you can find anywhere. Browse our website and order online. But if you want to buy a rug, then we urge you call at our store where there is so much more to see. Large or small rugs, hall runners, square, round. We even weave rugs to the size you want.
Set inside three adjoining 400-year-old cottages with oak beams and winding staircases. Each room is filled to bursting with every conceivable kind of rug. Stacks of rugs, rugs hanging, rugs draped and suspended. Most people describe it as a real “Aladdin’s Cave”
Oriental Rugs in all shapes and sizes.... Circular and octagonal rugs. Runners up to 40 ft long. Square carpets (harder to find than you think). Rugs for long narrow rooms. Small rugs for hanging or table decoration. Lots of large sized rugs. Variety and choice with prices ranging between £20 and £20,000
Buying Oriental Rugs Made Easy...
We offer a try at home service together with a full refund if the rug you choose is not suitable. We can assist with advice on colours and styles and we can deliver anywhere in mainland UK at minimal cost.
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Additional Information

 

Large Persian Rugs

 

Large Persian Rugs are a sign of luxury. They are used for covering your floor beautifully, and they bring warmth to any large space and accentuate any living, dining, or bedroom area. Large area rugs are ideal for any architectural design consisting of an open concept. These Large Persian Rugs are handmade carpets that are either knotted with a pile or woven without a pile. All these rugs are genuine handmade Oriental carpets that are weaved by skilled weavers. These rugs are most commonly made in small rug businesses and homes by families, who have been weaving rugs for generations.

 

Oriental Carpets

 

Oriental carpets are an essential part of Asian, central Asian and Arab art and culture. Carpet-weaving is undoubtedly one of the most distinguished manifestations of many cultures, and some carpets date back to ancient periods. Wool is the most common material used in Oriental Carpets. However, cotton is frequently used for the foundation of city and workshop carpets. Silk carpets date back to at least the sixteenth century in Sabzavar, and they date back to the Seventeenth century in Kashan. Yezd Silk carpets are less common than wool carpets since silk is more expensive and less durable. Due to their rarity, value and lack of durability, silk carpets are often displayed on walls like tapestry.

 

Oriental Rugs

 

Authentic Oriental rugs are handmade carpets that are either knotted with a pile or woven without a pile. Oriental-design rugs made by machine or any method other than hand knotting or hand weaving. These are not considered to be authentic oriental rugs. Oriental rugs normally come from a broad geographical region that extends from China and Vietnam in the east to Turkey and Iran in the west. It also stretches from the Caucasus in the north to India in the south. People from different cultures, countries, racial groups and religious faiths are involved in the production of oriental rugs. These rugs are organized by origin in the following categories: Persian rugs, Anatolian rugs, Kurdish rugs, Caucasian rugs, Central Asian rugs, Turkistan Ian rugs, Chinese rugs, and Tibetan rugs.