Handwoven Kilims
October 5, 2026
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 […]
September 18, 2026
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
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 3, 2026
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 […]
June 29, 2026
The most sophisticated rooms in America are being furnished, increasingly, with an object its makers never intended to sell. The Andean frazada, a handwoven kilim produced […]
June 1, 2026
The real spatial dimension does not get painted, it gets woven. Begin with hanging a piece such as Signed Vintage Lia Cook Tapestry slightly off-center on […]
May 19, 2026
In the winter of 1883, William Morris stood before a room full of wool merchants, manufacturers, and assorted Victorian worthies in a lecture hall in Birmingham […]
May 15, 2026
In the final years of the sixteenth century, the treasury of France was hemorrhaging. Not to war alone though there had been enough of that but […]
April 28, 2026
How U.S.–Iran Tensions Are Reshaping the World of Fine Rugs: From Safavid Courts to Sanction Regimes
There is a room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where a sixteenth-century Persian carpet stops people mid-stride. Because something in the […]
