22 Feb
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How to Choose a Rug: Top 3 Design Tips

Are you looking for the perfect match for your home? Just like finding the perfect person, finding the perfect rug for your home can feel intimidating. But don’t worry, The Rug Gallery is here to help! Our team of experienced designers has been helping people find their perfect rug match for years, and we’re here […]
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08 Apr
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Ikat Rugs: What You Need to Know

Ikat, sometimes referred to as ikkat, is not as much a rug as it is a specific dying technique used for rugs. While this dyeing technique can be used for a variety of textiles, rugs are one of the most common pieces to feature this type of unique dyeing. In this video, Sam Presnell explains […]
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15 May
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Understanding Rug Materials

Transcript What are the most common materials that rugs are made of? The most common materials today that rugs are made out are usually, I’d say, three products. One is polypropylene which is synthetic fiber, the other one is viscose which is usually made from what people call bamboo silk, or whatever you want to […]
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01 May
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Oriental Rugs – Try It Before You Buy It

Transcript I think the thing that separates The Rug Gallery, and what our difference is, is the “Try It Before You Buy It” program that we have. We’ve been doing this way of selling rugs for our history, almost 45 years. It allows you to come in, select several rugs, maybe three or four rugs, […]
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17 Apr
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Understanding Vintage Rugs

Transcript We are going to talk about vintage rugs, and vintage rugs is a very unique product that’s really popular today. A lot of people think that vintage rugs are rugs that were old rugs that are aged and have been around for a long time and they are basically antiques, or maybe they are […]
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06 Mar
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How To Choose a Rug for Your Room

  When you’re trying to determine the size of a rug for a room, I think, you want to think about how you’re using the room and how your furniture is placed in that room. For me, if you’re looking at a space, I’m trying to define that space, which is the furniture around it. […]
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20 Feb
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Understanding Sari Silk Rugs

Transcript What is a sari silk rug? I’ve had that question asked a lot. A lot of people believe that it’s made from the saris that are used, and they’ll basically strip the saris apart and put them back together and spin them into fiber and make rugs of them that way. Unfortunately that is […]
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08 Feb
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Rug Buying Travel Experiences

Transcript What countries have you travelled to on rug buying trips? So, the last countries I traveled to, buying rugs, was India and Turkey, and I did that last fall. In fact the time we’re taping right now we are getting ready to go on another trip to India and Turkey as well. So those […]
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23 Jan
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Understanding Peshawar Rugs

Transcript PESH-awar or Pe-SHA-war, or however you want to pronounce it – it could be tomato or tomato, I’m not sure what the correct word is – I always called it Pe-SHA-war. Peshawar is a little town in the Northwest border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was a refugee camp. It was a refugee […]
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09 Jan
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How To Tell a Machine-made Rug From a Hand-woven Rug

Transcript How do you tell the difference between machine-made rug and a hand-woven rug? I think that’s a big question that everybody seems to ask, and they’re not really sure about what’s right and which one is which. I have to say I made that my first mistake as well. The first rug I ever […]
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