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Design num: W285C Country: India Dom. color: Gold Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: -- i W285C	Design num: W285D Country: India Dom. color: Yellow Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Red, Green i W285D	Design num: W285H Country: India Dom. color: Gold Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Red, Pink, Ivory i W285H
Design num: W285K Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Gold i W285K	Design num: W286 Country: India Dom. color: Red Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Green, Gold, Black i W286	Design num: W289 Country: India Dom. color: Blue Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Gold i W289
Design num: W301 Country: India Dom. color: Blue Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Red, Gold i W301	Design num: W304 Country: India Dom. color: Gold Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: -- i W304	Design num: W311 Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Green, Beige i W311
Design num: W311C Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Teal i W311C	Design num: W314 Country: India Dom. color: Brown Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Green, Beige i W314	Design num: W320B Country: India Dom. color: Gold Style: Traditional Weave: Nilam Sec. colors: Red, Blue i W320B

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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.