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Design num: PJ70D Name: Waterlilies Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Transitional, Traditional Sec. colors: Black, Blue, Brown, Ivory i PJ70D Silk: hand knotted - 121 knots per sq inch weave. Shown 9x9.	Design num: RA02A Country: India Dom. color: Blue Style: Contemporary Sec. colors: Grey i RA02A	Design num: RA03A Country: India Dom. color: Black Style: Contemporary Sec. colors: Ivory i RA03A
Design num: RA04A Country: India Dom. color: Grey Style: Sec. colors: Beige, Black, Brown, Rust i RA04A	Design num: RA378B Country: India Dom. color: Multi Style: Contemporary Sec. colors: Multi i RA378B	Design num: RA435C Country: India Dom. color: Pink Style: Contemporary Sec. colors: Multi i RA435C
Design num: RA442A Country: India Dom. color: Pink Style: Transitional Sec. colors: -- i RA442A	Design num: SK02B Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Contemporary Sec. colors: -- i SK02B	Design num: SK02C Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Contemporary Sec. colors: -- i SK02C
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M&K Rugs from India

Frank Michaelian, grandfather of the current owner of M&K Rugs, started making carpets in India in the 1950s, and we at M&K have been involved with carpet weaving there ever since. The art of rug weaving was brought to India in the 17th century by the Moghuls who migrated from an area of what is now Afghanistan. Carpets back then were reserved exclusively for royalty and it was not until the British colonized India in the 18th Century that carpets were made commercially for export. Unfortunately, by the 1970s, carpet weaving had become so commercialized and the rugs had so little personality that the industry was nearly dead.
In the early 1980s Teddy Sumner created a project in India whereby traditional carpet materials and techniques were re-established. The partnership was called Black Mountain Looms and the carpets, which are still made today, are called Mahindras. It is ironic that in the land of Ghandi Black Mountain Looms had to bring craftspeople from the USA to teach the Indians how to hand-spin wool. The methods and materials brought back to India began a renaissance in the Indian rug industry, which today is flourishing.