Our collection of Traditional carpets is based on classic designs and weaving principles woven prior to the mass production of post world war II in which the carpet industry in Persia, Turkey and India no longer produced exceptional weavings with fine material and a sense of artistry. Persia began mass producing Tabriz , Kashans, Bidjar etc. while Turkey began to produce low grade Ushaks and silk Herek's. India once know for their beautiful carpet the Agra began to totally stop its production. The entire industry shifted to producing high volume at low cost substituting natural dyes for cheap chrome and anilines. Quality hand-spun wool high in natural oils and raw cotton was replaced with damaged low grade dull wool. Although many major carpet producing industries still maintained a fine weave the weaving techniques changed to one that took shorter time by warping knots around 4 + warps instead of the convincible 2. It was believed that the US and European consumer had less interested in quality. As well consumers really did not understand what truly justifies quality other than the naive thought of knot count and thus the always asked question, how much knots per square inch?. And the common rug merchant answer; "do not worry it is very fine quality over 300 kpsi and I will give you 60% off". The US economy and metropolitan boom of the 20th c. set a wave for carpet exports and items flooded the market in the 50's. It seems as if this flood of low grade carpets has recently slowed done considerably as now too many carpets are on the market most likely a ratio of 400 rugs per single rug consumer. The late 20th c. and the embargo lift on Persian rugs gave way to these countries to began a revival of the quality carpet industry. "LIMITED" carpet producing companies have begun to re-introduce natural dyes, hand-spun wool and old methods of sheering and final washing setting high standards in which hopefully the entire industry will someday soon follow. The collection presented in the above links is a result of this revival. Please click on the links above to see samples.