Today was the third day of our Certified Rug Specialist class. The instructor Ellen Amirkhan talked about the exam we should take at the end...

Today was Tuesday and the second day of our Certified Rug Specialist class. After having breakfast, I met with other participants in the lob...

I am in Dallas, Texas to attend a one-week rug school to become Certified Rug Specialist. This advanced course is offered every two years. I...

We have online chat on our web site . A customer chatted with me for a few minutes and got a quote from me for rug cleaning. He showed up in...

There is a very informative and up to date web site called Jozan . I visit this cool web site very often. It has a good calendar of events ...

Yesterday, we had two customers, a husband and a wife looking for an 8 x 11 feet area rug. They messed up our store and liked/disliked many ...

After being very slow for a few days, we had a very busy Saturday today. We were at work from 12:00 to 5:30 today. We had appointments with ...

Last night we went to an Italian restaurant with few other friends to have dinner and to celebrate the new year of 2009. Although we are not...

Yesterday afternoon around 4:00 pm, a husband, his wife, and their son probably in his early 30's walked into our rug store looking for ...

Last night was the new year's eve. Right before we close our rug gallery, we had power failure in part of our store and this affected ou...

My older son Ashkan who turned 22 in November is a certified search engine optimization expert. He just finished writing a book called ...

Merry Christmas to all. I wish everyone peace, health, joy and success. Khosrow Sobhe www.RugIdea.com 310-770-9085

Few times a week, I encounter customers who do not know what kind of rug they have. Some of them ask if their rug is worth cleaning. Last we...

Recently, we have had few customers who came into our rug gallery with their kids. We made the kids happy with giving them toys. The kids we...

We only have few days left before 2008 ends. We have many cleaned and repaired rugs but the customers do not show up to pick them up. Why? T...

It was a very slow day today. We sold a 3' x 5' Persian prayer rug to a customer in the morning. late in the afternoon, a custome...

We just finished repairing a damaged Turkish kilim. The foundation of this kilim was cotton. The photos show how nice it came out after the ...

Our weaver this time wanted to show us how artist she is. She made a photo of the Santa Claus and wove it on a kilim with his beard high li...

In an earlier post, I mentioned that a customer had a big hand knotted Turkish rug. It was too big for her office, so she wanted us to make ...

United States and the carpet industry I was browsing the Internet and I found some interesting statistics that I would like to share with yo...

"I don't want to spent a lot of money. I want a good quality rug with good material, desired size, with colors to match the interio...

A lady who had bought few rugs earlier this week returned today with her friend, another nice lady looking for a small rug to match two of t...

In the past few days, we have done many kilim cleaning, repair and water damage restoration . Almost all those customers who have brought us...

Before I close my rug store this afternoon, a lady walked in carrying an area rug for cleaning. I walked toward her and got the rug from he...

It was Saturday today. We picked up four rugs from a customer's house for cleaning and repair . One of them was a very old and antique ...

We just concluded the statistics for our 3-day Rug Tent Sale . We were plus meaning that we covered our expenses and earned some money and f...

After our successful Rug Tent Sale (Nov. 28-30, 2008), our market picked up a little bit and for the first two days of the week we sold sev...

It is Friday morning 6:15 am and I am writing my post number 300. Having a rug blog and posting real stories about my professional career ha...

Few days ago, we went to a customers house to pick up two rugs for cleaning . The rugs were very old Karastan Kerman machine made area rugs...

Busy Monday: The Rug Tent Sale's After Math  It was Monday today and I went to work at 8:30 am. We organized and divided several rugs an...