It was raining today in Los Angeles and this affected the traffic and those who might want to go shopping, specially those who may want to b...

Last evening, a customer brought a Farahan small rug for cleaning and repair. For me seeing rugs like this is like a kid seeing a fun toy! W...

We had a meeting at the American Society of Interior Designers, ASID Los Angeles Chapter yesterday for the Industry Partners who are the su...

Today, few customers came in separately looking for cheap rugs. One of them put two 4x6 area rugs aside and said he might come back later. W...

Yesterday was Sunday and a very quiet day. I sold a short Persian Hamedan runner to a customer. Another young lady also bought a small area ...

Each year, the day after Thanksgiving which is the last Thursday in November is the record day for sales in the US. I was browsing the Inter...

We had a great Thanksgiving with family and friends. I already wrote about this in my previous post. As planned, I was at work yesterday, Fr...

Yesterday was a relatively busy day. Few customers brought their Persian or Oriental rugs for cleaning and repair. A friend who lives in a c...

A customer called me at 7:55 am today and asked me if our store was open and I said yes, we're open and I asked if he had our address. H...

It was very slow yesterday. Few people came in separately, but they were only asking for cheap area rugs which I did not have. A couple of r...

Can you imagine what would happen if God had not created women? All the businesses would go bankrupt! Usually when a couple come to our stor...

We delivered few cleaned rugs today. I talked about this job on another post. The lady and her husband wanted to have only one rug cleaned a...

A customer came in with an old Kerman rug which needed to be cleaned. When we said this would cost her $175, she said" I bought this ru...

Yesterday, I delivered an old Persian Heriz and a Kilim which was given to us by a customer from Hollywood area. The kilim was so dirty that...

It was Veterans Day yesterday in the United States and was a public holiday. Shops and many private institutions were open. We were open too...

Friday, November 9th, my older son Ashkan turned 21. We had a party in an Italian-Persian restaurant in Culver City in Los Angeles. Ashkan ...

We are receiving more inquiries from our customers in regard with buying, cleaning and repair. It maybe because of the season and approachin...

It was pretty good. Fine food, chatting, and networking. Before starting the program (I explained about this in my previous post), there is ...

I have a lecture tonight in gathering in a restaurant in Beverly Hills. I post the handout that I am going to pass later this evening. It i...

Today was a busy day. I went to a colleague's rug shop with our repairman to see an old big Persian Bidjar which needed some professiona...

Yesterday, I went to this customer's house which was in Hollywood. She had many carpets for cleaning and repair. She only gave us two pi...

It was a quiet Sunday today. We took more photos of our Qashqai rugs in our showroom. These green rugs are made with hand spun wool and natu...

Today, we had a board meeting for the Textile Museum Associates of Southern California. The vice president hosted the meeting in her house. ...

Today, Mr. Mousa Karimzadeh, a friend of the 80's from Hamburg came to visit me in our rug gallery in Los Angeles. Mr. Karimzadeh lives ...

Today, a gentleman came into our rug gallery with his wife looking for an area rug. The husband and the wife had different ideas about th...

A customer came into our rug gallery today with his wife. First they looked for a round rug, but then they changed their mind. They saw a ru...

This morning at 10:00 we delivered 3 rugs which were picked up while ago for cleaning and repair. The customer wanted to check one of them w...

Our Dine & Learn event was held in our Persian & Oriental rug gallery in the Los Angeles showroom between 6:00 to 9:00 pm on Oct. 18...

It feels good to be a blogger. I am a rug lover and rug is my passion. I could not sleep well last night. So I got up at around 4:00 am and...