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Design num: VF337 Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Green, Blue, Gold i VF337	Design num: VF338 Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Gold i VF338	Design num: VF340 Country: India Dom. color: Gold Style: Traditional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Red i VF340
Design num: VF341A Country: India Dom. color: Green Style: Traditional, Transitional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Gold i VF341A	Design num: VF341B Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional, Transitional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Gold i VF341B	Design num: VF341C Country: India Dom. color: Blue Style: Traditional, Transitional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Gold i VF341C
Design num: VF342 Country: India Dom. color: Gold Style: Traditional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Green i VF342	Design num: VF359 Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Red, Green i VF359	Design num: VF368 Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Gold i VF368
Design num: VF382BZ Country: India Dom. color: Brown Style: Traditional Weave: Mogul Sec. colors: Beige i VF382BZ	Design num: VF4 Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional Weave: Finemahindra Sec. colors: Teal, Ivory, Black i VF4	Design num: VF414B Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional Sec. colors: -- i VF414B

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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.