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Hand-knotted Rugs

October 5, 2026

The Complete Guide to Oushak Rugs: History, Aesthetic Language, and Contemporary Design Use

The Enduring Language of Oushak Rugs in Global Design  Oushak rugs, also spelled Uşak or Ushak, stand among the most influential textile traditions in the history […]
October 2, 2026

The Long Life of a Green: On Celery, Color of the Year, and the Four Centuries of Weaving That Anticipated It

Every year, the color world makes its pronouncement, and every year the design world turns to see what it has been given. For 2027, Sherwin-Williams has […]
September 18, 2026

Time, Labor and the Lasting Value of the Handmade Rug

There is a question that hovers, unspoken, over every fine handmade rug: why does it cost what it costs? It is a fair question, and it […]
September 9, 2026

On the Changing Nature of Money, and a Quiet Shift in How the World’s Great Collections Are Built

Something has changed in the psychology of collecting, and it has changed quietly. For most of the modern era, the serious collector acquired for love, for […]
September 6, 2026

How The Objects Around Us Define Us: An Interior As A Self-Portrait

We like to believe we choose our possessions. It is nearer the truth to say that, over time, they choose us back, that the objects we […]
September 3, 2026

The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation

We had a tapestry acquisition unfolding itself in the studio a while ago. Josh and the team just stood there, silently admiring the way the light […]
August 28, 2026

The Total Art: Vienna’s Century, From the Gold Frieze to the Contemporary Era

In the dining room of a banker’s house in Brussels there is a wall of gold. Klimt designed it; the Stoclet Frieze, a tree of life […]
August 26, 2026

Leo and Greti Wollner and the Vienna Carpet Inheritance

There is a particular authority that attaches to an object when one can trace its maker’s hand, teacher by teacher, back to a single revolutionary moment, […]
June 23, 2026

Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry Artists’ Series: In Dialogue with Joanne Soroka

There are artists who weave cloth and the ones who weave ideas. And then there are artists; rare, serious, working at a register that most practitioners […]
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