In an earlier post I wrote about a Persian carpet workshop I had in my rug gallery on April, 4, 2011. An enthusiast group of 45 people atte...

Rug market is very slow these days in Los Angeles. I believe this is not only Los Angeles or California, it is slow everywhere, and it is no...

It is almost 2:00 am and I just finished publishing a post on my animal carpet blog on the mysterious Pazyryk carpet. Writing and reading a...

I was at work today, Saturday from 12:00 to 4:00 pm. I wanted to check out a rug book from our nearby Los Angeles Public Library Robertson B...

A couple, husband and wife brought in this pair of Lambskin/sheepskin for cleaning. I was curious to see what kind of use they have for thi...

After two months of hard work, we finished the restoration of a huge 10' x 14' antique tapestry. We hand cleaned this tapestry and t...

Once in a while we receive a very dirty rug for cleaning . We think this is the dirtiest rug ever. In a few days, we receive another recor...

I always buy rug books and give some of them to our clients who appreciate rugs, kilims, and textiles. Our old library was small so I bough...

A customer brought in a pair of dirty Kashan rugs, ca. 5' x 7' 5" for cleaning and repair . The fringes on both ends were sev...

In my earlier post, I cited an anonymous comment  from a reader of my blog criticizing me for cleaning rugs for " a bunch of white Amer...

I received this anonymous comment on one of my recent posts on tapestry cleaning, tapestry repair/restoration . I don't intend to reply ...

I watched this video at work. Although long, I could not stop watching it. This post and this video has nothing to do with carpets, but i...

We have been working on the restoration of a big 10' x 14' antique French tapestry . Probably 2/3 of the repair is done. I have assi...