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Design num: VS8C Country: India Dom. color: Blue Style: Transitional, Contemporary Weave: Benares Sec. colors: -- i VS8C Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.	Design num: VS8D Country: India Dom. color: Teal Style: Transitional, Contemporary Weave: Benares Sec. colors: -- i VS8D Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.	Design num: VS8E Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Contemporary Weave: Benares Sec. colors: Grey i VS8E Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.
Design num: VS9A Country: India Dom. color: Pink Style: Traditional, Transitional Weave: Benares Sec. colors: -- i VS9A Handknotted using yarn spun from recycled sari silk.	Design num: VSOLG Country: India Dom. color: Green Style: Transitional, Contemporary Weave: Mahindra Sec. colors: Gold i VSOLG	Design num: VSOLR Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Transitional, Contemporary Weave: Mahindra Sec. colors: Gold i VSOLR
Design num: VW202A Name: VINTAGE/WOOL Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Contemporary Sec. colors: Ivory i VW202A	Design num: W105 Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Gold, Rust i W105	Design num: W105B Country: India Dom. color: Orange Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Green, Beige i W105B
Design num: W105C Country: India Dom. color: Rust Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Green, Gold i W105C	Design num: W105E Country: India Dom. color: Blue Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Gold, Rust, Ivory i W105E	Design num: W109 Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Gold i W109

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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.