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Local Rug News Out with the old, In with the New (Jan -2010)
50% OFF sale on selected merchandise
We're making room for new shipments!
5 days only, Feb. 3 through Feb. 8
Come in for 1st pick and take a look at what we offer.
We guarantee you'll be pleasantly surprised!
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New Shipment of Area Rugs (Jan -2010)
A new shipment of Area Rugs has arrived at our local store!
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New TV Commercial
World of Rugs & Furniture has launched a new TV ad.
Click on the screen-shot, to see our TV commercial that is airing right now!
Famous Annual Tent Sale
World of Rugs & Furniture is having a Huge Tent Sale.
Prices are marked down 50% - 85% OFF!
Tent sale starts Friday October 30th
Click here to see our Tent Sale newsletter,
or click here to see our Tent Sale commercial.
New Shipment of Leather Furniture (Sept 2009 - III)
A new shipment of Leather Furniture has arrived at our local store!
Click here to see the new shipment.
New Shipment of Upholsteries (Sept 2009 - II)
A new shipment of upholsteries has arrived at our local store!
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New Shipment of Hand-Knotted Oushak rugs! (Sept 2009)
A new shipment of Hand-Knotted Oushak rugs from 2 x 3, up to palace size has arrived at our local store!
Click here to see the new shipment.
New Shipment! (Aug 2009 - II)
A new shipment of Rattan Chairs and High-Back Cane Chairs has freshly arrived.
New Shipment! (Aug 2009)
A new shipment of standard sizes of Sisal & Seagrass has freshly arrived.
4X6, 6X9, 8X10 and 9X12 are waiting for you in our store!
6X9 starting at $139, 8X10 starting at $199
Also a new shipment of indoor/outdoor rugs, with fresh designs and cool colors.
50% OFF all Stanley Furniture (March 2009)
World of Rugs & Furniture invites you to our new and improved 80.000 square feet showroom
With this invitation you will receive 1/2 off ALL Stanley Furniture
This event will be held:
March 18 - 31, 2009
Location:
World of Rugs & Furniture
1530 Ellsworth Industrial Dr.
Atlanta GA.
Web Site News
Colors of India - DVD (Aug 2009)
Have you already seen our videos about how rugs are made?
The excellent DVD called "Colors of India" that shows you the complete process!
Click here to see some previews of this DVD or click here to read more details.
Antique Rugs are added. (July 2009)
We have added a great selection of Antique Rugs.
While more antique rugs will be added soon, the true antique lover will sure like these!
Click here to browse our antique rugs.
We added another 350 products to our furniture section. (July 2009)
Today (07-20-2009) we have added another 350 products to our furniture section.
Click here to browse our furniture.
We added 425 more products and started on the Projects page (June 2009)
Today (06-25-2009) we have added many products to our furniture section on our website.
We also have added one of our projects to the Projects page.
This will give you already a nice idea of what World of Rugs & Furniture can do.
More products and projects will be added very soon!
World of Rugs & Furniture now has an online catalog! (June 2009)
World of Rugs & Furniture has changed it's website!
We tried to keep the same 'look' of our website, but many things have changed. Please check out our many categories & products and enjoy your stay at our NEW website.
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Cleaning tips for your area rug, carpet, hardwood floor & furniture
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.
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. |
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"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.
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