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Design num: VS2D Name: Double Happiness Country: India Dom. color: Yellow Style: Traditional Weave: Benares Sec. colors: Orange i VS2D Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.	Design num: VS2E Name: Double Happiness Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Contemporary Weave: Benares Sec. colors: Black i VS2E Handknotted with yarn spun from reclaimed sari silk.	Design num: VS322A Name: Pennies Country: India Dom. color: Black Style: Contemporary Weave: Benares Sec. colors: Orange, Brown, Pink i VS322A Handknotted with yarn spun from reclaimed sari silk
Design num: VS367A Name: Ushak Country: India Dom. color: Yellow Style: Traditional, Transitional Weave: Benares Sec. colors: Pink i VS367A Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.	Design num: VS367B Name: Ushak Country: India Dom. color: Blue Style: Traditional Weave: Benares Sec. colors: Red, Green, Pink i VS367B Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.	Design num: VS432A Name: MANDALAY Country: India Dom. color: Teal Style: Transitional Weave: Mahindra Sec. colors: Gold, Green i VS432A ALL VEGETABLE DYES, HAND SPUN WOOL, 5X7 SHOWN
Design num: VS432C Name: Mandalay Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Transitional Weave: Mahindra Sec. colors: Grey i VS432C all vegetable dyes and handspun wool. 5x7 shown	Design num: VS4B Country: India Dom. color: Pink Style: Contemporary Weave: Benares Sec. colors: Purple i VS4B Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.	Design num: VS4C Country: India Dom. color: Yellow Style: Contemporary Weave: Benares Sec. colors: Red, Green, Purple, Pink i VS4C Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.
Design num: VS4D Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Contemporary Weave: Benares Sec. colors: -- i VS4D Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.	Design num: VS7A Country: India Dom. color: Pink Style: Traditional, Transitional Weave: Benares Sec. colors: -- i VS7A Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.	Design num: VS8A Country: India Dom. color: Pink Style: Transitional, Contemporary Weave: Benares Sec. colors: -- i VS8A Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.

Weave

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.