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Design num: MH201P Name: Mandarin Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: -- i MH201P	Design num: MH201Q Name: Mandarin Country: India Dom. color: Brown Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: -- i MH201Q	Design num: MH201Q Name: Mandarin Country: India Dom. color: Brown Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: -- i MH201Q
Design num: MH201X Name: Mandarin Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: -- i MH201X	Design num: MH367A Country: India Dom. color: Orange Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: -- i MH367A Long Pile Mahal Weave	Design num: MH367B Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: Grey, Blue, Green, Orange i MH367B
Design num: MH367B Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: Grey, Blue, Green, Orange i MH367B	Design num: MH367B Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: -- i MH367B Handspun wool in a single wefted construction. This weave is great in translating tribal, simple or eclectic designs.	Design num: MH367C Country: India Dom. color: Beige Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: -- i MH367C Handspun wool in a single wefted construction. This weave is great in translating tribal, simple or eclectic designs.
Design num: MH367CR Country: India Dom. color: Blue Style: Traditional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: -- i MH367CR Long Pile Mahal Weave	Design num: MH367F Country: India Dom. color: Grey Style: Traditional Sec. colors: Beige, Blue, Yellow i MH367F	Design num: MH425A Country: India Dom. color: Ivory Style: Traditional, Transitional Weave: Mahal Sec. colors: Grey i MH425A Handspun wool in a single wefted construction. This weave is great in translating tribal, simple or eclectic designs.

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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.