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Design num: W109B Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Red, Gold i W109B	Design num: W109D Country: India Dom. color: Orange Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Green, Gold i W109D	Design num: W109E Country: India Dom. color: Green Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Yellow, Ivory i W109E
Design num: W109F Country: India Dom. color: Teal Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Gold, Khaki i W109F	Design num: W109H Country: India Dom. color: Brown Style: Traditional, Transitional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Purple, Gold i W109H	Design num: W241B Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Red i W241B
Design num: W241C Country: India Dom. color: Green Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Blue, Beige, Rust i W241C	Design num: W247B Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Green, Blue, Gold, Black i W247B	Design num: W279 Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Black i W279
Design num: W280A Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Green, Gold i W280A	Design num: W280B Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: -- i W280B	Design num: W285A Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Black i W285A

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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.