Historical Handmade Rugs

Rugs heave been used for interior decor and design since the past 3000years!! The Egyptians and ancient Babylonians used rugs to give their environment a cool and colorful touch. From plain rugs to designed and beautiful ones the story tracks back almost 1000 years when the Mughal Kings in Indian Sub-Continent ordered their designers to design rugs with special effects which could make their environment cool and give them a pleasant feeling! It was after 1,000 AD when the art rug weaving started in Europe, most likely in Spain because of its location in relation to Egypt and Persia as well as Iran where rug weaving was a passion for rich Nowabs (landlords). This passion became more strong in Europe when Eleanor of Castile married Edward I of England in 1255AD and she brought along many classySpanish rugs which probably came from Cordoba or Granada. The three tools shown in the figure are the most unique and antique tools used by looms to manufacture rugs by hand. The top most tool is a hooked knife, the second one is the comb while the third one is a pair of scissors. If you want to learn more about rugs just CLICK HERE.
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Tips to Improve Interior Decor by Rugs

Rugs are the foundation, the basis of any any room. When planning the interior of any room the thing that comes first is the basis with is given by a perfect rug. Here are some basic tips you must know:
-> Always start off any interior design by selecting the rug and then painting your walls with the colors in the rugs, and then the other interior. You can go the other way around but its best to choose a rug first.
-> Suitable rugs always fits off with suitable places in the house! For example if you want a rug for the enterance, living room or for the stares you would want a nice padded rug to increase its strength.
-> Choose furniture that enhances the rug design or colors found in the rug.
-> Light colored rugs make a room look more spacious, and deeper colors lend coziness to a room.
-> Don’t underestimate the value of an underlay. Not only will it absorb the impact of feet and noise, it will reduce wear and tear on the rug and make vacuuming easier.
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Sphinx to Introduce New Collections and Patterns

Home Textiles Today reports that Sphinx by Oriental Weavers will introduce 6 new machine-made collections and 14 new patterns for 2 existing collections.

The new machine-made collections will be: Luxor, Samarkand, Channing, Pembroke, Zen, and Haven. They will be adding 8 new patterns to the Tones Collection and 6 patterns to the Evolution Collection. The Tones Collection are machine-woven, hand-carved polypropylene area rugs. The Evolution Collection are shag-like, polypropylene machine-woven rugs.

Home Textiles Today says Sphinx by Oriental Weavers will introduce these additions to there current offerings at the Atlanta International Area Rug market in January.

Brick and Mortar Stores Tighten Return Policies

Many retail store are tightening their return policies because of theft and fraud. Here is a story from CBS News.

LaRocca sees thousands of return fraud cases every year, and many are caught on tape. In one example, a woman tried to return an area rug at a department store. The clerk didn't realize that minutes earlier, security cameras caught her stealing the same rug right off the shelf. The woman disappeared as soon as she got her refund. CBS News

This is costing shoppers at brick and mortar retail stores more money.

"You and I as consumers are paying a little extra at the register, almost a hidden crime tax, to cover those losses committed by people stealing merchandise and taking advantage of retail return policies," LaRocca said. CBS News

Because of the nature of our business this can’t happen to us and you will never pay a “hidden crime tax” for area rugs with us.

Feizy Rugs signs contracts to Create Two New Collections

As reported in Fibre2Fashion.com Feizy Area Rugs recently signed two contracts, one with Sandra Lee and the other with Tracy Porter, to create two new rug collections.

"Feizy Rugs recently signed two multiyear contracts, of which first one gives it a license for Sandra Lee accent and area rugs to deal in Sandra’s home collection of furniture and accessories. Second one gives it license for Tracy Porter area rugs to deal in Tracy’s collection of home accessories, tabletop collections and fabrics." Fibre2Fashion.com

Feizy Area Rugs will launch Sandra’s rug collection in January at gift, home furnishing and rug markets in Atlanta and also Las Vegas World Market. Porter’s collection will be unveiled in January at Las Vegas World Market also. It will be interesting to see how these two collections, developed at the same time with the same manufacturer, will differ based on there namesakes’ strengths, Sandra Lee being an author and lifestyle expert, while Tracy Porter is a designer and artisan.