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Local Rug News World of Rugs & Furniture has moved! (February 2008)
... along with thousands of pieces of furniture and accessories. World of Rugs & Furniture has moved!
For more than five years, we have continued to grow at an unprecedented rate. Our showroom has almost doubled in size, from 33,000 square feet, to 55,000 square feet. The new location of World of Rugs & Furniture is: 1530 Ellsworth Industrial Dr. - Atlanta GA.
We're looking forward to see you in our new home!
More than 12,000 hand-knotted rugs are gone! (December 2007)
... along with thousands of pieces of furniture, accessories. World of Rugs & Furniture is moving.
For more than five years, this leading rug, carpet and hardwood merchant continues to grow at an unprecedented rate, almost doubling in size, from 33,000 square feet, to 55,000 square feet. World of Rugs & Furniture's new address will be: 1530 Ellsworth Industrial Drive in Atlanta GA.
Click here to read the complete article placed on our Press Release page.
World of Rugs & Furniture hosts Children's Boutique Clearance Sale benefiting Charity
(December 2007)
World of Rugs & Furniture is hosting the highly successful Children's Boutique Clearance Sale. This Children's event will give a portion of it's entrance fee to CARE. Local event organizer Susan Wimberly has again collaborated with top children's boutiques in the Atlanta area to host their 5th Children's Boutique Clearance Sale.
Click here to read the complete article placed on our Press Release page.
Candice Olson & Martha Stewart come to Atlanta (December 2007)
World of Rugs & Furniture the premier provider of fine rugs and carpets has been selected as the exclusive distributor for Candice Olson & Martha Stewart rugs and carpet in Georgia.
Click here to read the complete article placed on our Press Release page.
World of Rugs & Carpet is now World of Rugs & Furniture!
We might have changed our name, but you can still count on us for you huge selection of Rugs, Carpet and Hardwood flooring. We have however, added a big selection of furniture to our store!
For more information and/or to see our furniture in person, please visit our website or stop by at our store.
Web Site News
Monthly specials now include furniture and accessories! (February 2008)
As our regular site visitors might know, we have new specials each month. This was limited to great deals on area rugs, but as of now, we have included great deals on furniture and accessories!
Remember, as usual from these specials there's only one item left, so gone = gone.
Click here to go to the our Monthly Specials.
Designer Support Center updated! (December 2007)
We have updated our Designer Support Center (Designer Corner) with out current stock.
Sign up now to browse over 4800 area rugs in our database!
Interested? Get access without signing up untill our online store is finished!
Login as an existing user with the user name: visitor and the password: free
Click here to go to the Designer Support Center.
Merida Meridian added to the Brand name area rugs (December 2007)
We have added the Merida Meridian collection to our brand name rugs.
Browse their beautiful collection of Sisal, Seagrass, Hemp, Paper and Jute area rugs that all can be custom sized to your needs!
Click here to see the Merida collection.
Gala Auction December 8th & 9th (December 2007)
We're moving and we're overstocked!
World of Rugs & Furniture will have an auction on December 8th & 9th.
Enjoy fabulous food and World Famous Auctioneer & Entertainers Michael Abdulla and Son, while we auction the finest selection area rugs and furniture collections.
Reserve your chair and enjoy an exciting evening of fantastic bargins, food and fun.
Cleaning tips for your area rug, carpet & hardwood floor (November 2007)
We had many requests from users to post some cleaning tips like we had posted on our old website.
Since we like to help our customers and you in any way we can....
Click here to see our cleaning tips or go to http://www.worldofrugs.com/rugcleaningtips.htm
World of Rugs and Carpet is now World of Rugs and Furniture (October 2007)
We might have changed our name, but you can still count on us for you huge selection of Rugs, Carpet and Hardwood flooring. We have however, added a big selection of furniture to our store!
Soon we will add our furniture to our Furniture page on this website. As usual we will announce the update this on this news page.
Have direct online contact with World of Rugs & Furniture (October 2007)
The Live Chat function is operational again to help you.
If you have a small question that you like to have answered quickly, chances are good one of our staff members is online to ask a question.
Click on "Live Chat" on the top of each page for a browser interfaced chat with us.
If the button shows "Chat offline", it means no one is available to assist you directly. You can in this case still use this button to leave us a message.
Designer Corner is back! (October 2007)
We have many designers that are signed-up to our designer corner. During the transformation of our web site, we had to temporay take the Designer Corner down.
We are glad we now have this up and running again, however under a new name: Designer Support Center
You can access the Designer Support Center via the homepage, where you will find the link close to the bottom of the page on the left.
Click here to go to the Designer Support Center.
New website has been launched! (September 2007)
As you perhaps already noticed... World of Rugs & Furniture has launched it's new website!
We have decided to update our website to give it a friendlier look and use to it, as well as implement new features like an online shop!
At this moment we are however still working on the shop and several other pages, but we will get it all completed as soon as we can for you.
Of course we will keep you posted of the latest updates via this page.
Hardwood floors (March 2007)
We have added some pages about hardwood floors.
The pages give you some background information about hardwood floors that might help you
in your purchase of a hardwood floor.
Click here to go there now!
Carpet division expanded (March 2007)
We have added a new section to our carpet division:
"Choosing the right Carpet"
This section gives you some background information about carpet that might help you
in your purchase of carpet.
Click here to go there now!
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Did you know that... Persian rug sells for record $4.45 million at auction
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A silk Persian rug dating from the 16th century or 17th century has sold for a record price of $4.45 million at auction. That is about $729.87 per square inch.!
The rug was sold by Christie's auction house Tuesday June 3rd on behalf of the Newport Restoration Foundation. It was expected to bring in up to $1.5 million.
The rug, which measures 7ft, 7in by 5ft, 7in, had been purchased by the late tobacco heiress Doris Duke in 1990. She donated it to the foundation when she died.
Elisabeth Parker, head of Christie's rugs and carpets department, states that there are only two other known rugs like this one. She calls it an "amazing work of art" and says it has an intricate floral design and an unusually large number of colors, at 17.
Christie's mentions that the buyer prefers to remain anonymous.
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The current world's largest carpet is in the Qabus Azam Mosque in Muscat, Oman. It was woven by Iran Carpet Co. and shipped to Oman in 2000. It has an area of 5,000 square meters, weighing about 22 tons and was valued at $5.2 million.
Asia was the first continent to create rugs and that it was the nomadic wanderers who created them.
The oldest rug that is known today, was found in a burial site in the outer Mongolia.
The rug, that has the name: "Pazyryk Carpet", was buried over 2500 years and it has been frozen under the Siberian ice in the Altai Mountains region, conserving the condition of the rug. It was made with a knotting style that is known as the "Turkish Knot".
This shows the importance of Turkish carpet weaving and how influential it has been over rug weaving in the world. 
(Pazyryk)
Before the discovery of the Pazyryk Rug, the oldest pile rug fragments of ancient rugs that were ever discovered are found in East Turkmenistan in an area known as Tarim Basin. This area includes parts of northwest India, East Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan, Southern Russia, Western China and Mongolia.
There are rug fragments found in ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian tombs. This concludes that various forms of flat weaving were well developed more than 4000 years ago. Other evidence shows that weaving of pile rugs existed in the Middle East and other parts of Northwest, Central and Eastern Asia long before 2000 BC.
The biggest rug ever is made right now?
Bigger than a football field and worth $8.5 million!
Will this be the world's largest hand knotted carpet? | Cartoon of 6,000 sq. meter carpet now being woven in Iran TEHRAN -- More than 1,200 Iranian women have begun weaving a giant carpet worth $8.5 million. When completed, it will be the world's largest hand-knotted rug, according to Iran Carpet Co., which is the contractor.
It is being made for the Sheikh Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi. The rug will be 6,000 square meters, bigger than a football stadium and weighing about 48 tons. It will take about 14 months for the weavers to complete, working two shifts daily, according to the company. It will be decorated with traditional Persian designs and natural colors with more than 2.2 billion knots. The weaving began in March 2006 in Baghshan, 22 kilometers from the city of Neyshabour, (a village 800 km northeast of Tehran), and two nearby villages, close to the city of Mashad in Khorassan Province, in northeastern Iran. | |
"The weavers are all experienced women between ages of 15 and 60, supervised by 50 men acting as technical experts who will travel to Abu Dhabi to join the pieces at the mosque once the carpet is completed. The carpet will be made in eight different parts," according to Iran Carpet.
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The project has revived the carpet economy in northeastern Iran which has a long history of carpet making," a company spokesman said. |
