Certified Rug Specialist Class in Dallas, Texas Day 5

On the 5th day of our Certified Rug Specialist class, we had 25 rugs from different regions of Iran and also from other countries to identify. The range of identifying the rugs was from missing 2 to 8. I missed 3 rugs. There was on small Qaradjeh and I thought it was a Heriz rug. There was a very small 2 x 3 Farahan Sarouk tightly woven which I thought it was Bidjar. And there was a very old Afshar rug thatI missed and thought it was a Caucasian Shirwan rug wool on wool. It was fun and informative.

There is a participant who has been sent to our class by his company. He is so worried about passing the exam on the last day. He say my boss said if you fail the class, don't come to work; just kep flying!

Ellen Amirkhan and Aaron Groseclose then reveiwed all the rugs with the students to see why the identifying some pieces was not properly done.

Khosrow Sobhe
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085

Certified Rug Specialist Course Held by Restoration Industry Association

In an earlier post dated September 14, 2008, I wrote about an Oriental & Specialty Rug course I took for three days from Sept. 11 to 13, 2008 in San Diego, California. I enjoyed the class very much. The instructors, Aaron Groseclose and Ellen Amirkhan were very knowledgeable. The third day of this intensive course was held in a nice rug cleaning facility in San Diego where we saw the process of rug cleaning, repair and took a look at so many rugs.

Here in this picture, Ellen and I are carrying one of the Heriz rugs which was shown to the participants.

Khosrow Sobhe
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085

A Nice Old Gharadjeh Rug For Cleaning and Repair

We received a nice Ghardjeh (Gharajeh, Karaja, or Qarajeh) rug from a customer for cleaning and repair. Gharadjeh is a very small town in north west Iran close to the famous rug production center of Heriz. In Gharadjeh town, weavers only make small rugs by the popular size of 4 x 6 feet and mostly runners of up to 14 feet. The background color of most of the rugs is brownish red with small medallions compared with Heriz rugs which are mostly woven in big sizes with large medallions. Gharadjeh and Heriz rugs are made with symmetrical knots and in many cases have double-corded sides or selvages.

We did the repair on this damaged Gharadjeh rug and the customer who had driven all the way from San Diego, California around 120 miles south of Los Angeles was happy with our job.

Khosrow Sobhe
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085