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Design num:
BR170A
Name:
Swedish Block
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Grey
Style:
Contemporary
Sec. colors:
Ivory
i
BR170A
Design num:
BR170B
Name:
Swedish Block
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Black
Style:
Transitional
Weave:
BOHO
Sec. colors:
Grey, Ivory
i
BR170B
Design num:
BR170C
Name:
Swedish Block
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Black
Style:
Transitional
Weave:
BOHO
Sec. colors:
Black, Grey, Ivory
i
BR170C
Design num:
BR170D
Name:
Swedish Block
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Green
Style:
Transitional
Weave:
BOHO
Sec. colors:
Black, Teal, Turquoise
i
BR170D
Design num:
BR21A
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Red
Style:
Contemporary
Weave:
BOHO
Sec. colors:
Purple
i
BR21A
Design num:
BR21B
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Blue
Style:
Contemporary
Weave:
BOHO
Sec. colors:
Ivory
i
BR21B
Design num:
BR21D
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Grey
Style:
Contemporary
Weave:
BOHO
Sec. colors:
Blue, Grey, Ivory
i
BR21D
Design num:
BR380A
Name:
HYBISCUS , FUSCHIA
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Purple
Style:
Contemporary
Sec. colors:
Pink
i
BR380A
Design num:
BR381A
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Ivory
Style:
Contemporary
Weave:
BOHO
Sec. colors:
Blue
i
BR381A
Design num:
BR435A
Name:
Nantucket
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Ivory
Style:
Contemporary
Weave:
BOHO
Sec. colors:
Black, Grey
i
BR435A
Design num:
BR435B
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Blue
Style:
Contemporary
Weave:
BOHO
Sec. colors:
Green, Ivory
i
BR435B
Design num:
BR435F
Country:
India
Dom. color:
Blue
Style:
Sec. colors:
Blue, Ivory
i
BR435F
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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.