Resources for Collectors of Area Rugs
Home page of a group devoted to the study and appreciation of textiles, oriental rugs in particular. Also known as KCORTA. The group meets generally on a quarterly basis to listen to speakers and socialize. Includes village and nomadic pieces with wool and jewel-tone colors. Members have meetings to discuss textiles from foreign lands and share ideas. Membership information and a section of oriental rug links is included.
The Seattle Textile and Rug Society is also known as STARS, and the group is dedicated to the appreciation of fine rugs and textiles for those in the Puget Sound area. Through meetings, speakers, newsletters, and exhibitions, STARS provides its members an opportunity to learn and to share their interest in the world of carpets, textiles and the related arts. Anyone interest in studying, collecting, preserving or decorating with textiles and rugs will enjoy being a member of STARS. Group has had forums about textiles and costumes in urban Morocco, Tsutsugaki, Thai textiles, Shahsavan weaving and Kutch embroidery, to name a few.
This is a useful forum for getting in touch with rug collectors from around the world. The Oriental Rug Forum gives the publisher, the collector, the rug club or the dealer the possibility to publish information online through Jozan CMS system. It’s not a message board, but a site where the editor can create an announcement, publish an article or create a web site about rug collecting. Topics include dealers, rug collecting clubs, rug photographs, rug collecting events, places to visit, auction houses and more.
Home page to the San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society, this site is informative for rug collectors and area residents. Articles about Ersari, Armenian exhibitions, curious fragment, Moghul rugs, mosaics, Syrian rugs, Afghan War rugs, and more. Includes pictures from the Heavenly Gardens exhibition, membership information and more for those interested in rugs and textiles.
AKREP, Oriental Rug Society in Gothenburg, Sweden is a society for people interested in textiles, such as rugs, kilims, saddle-bags, sacks and other textiles related to the Orient. Swedish textiles also have their important part in the society. Akrep is a Turkish word for scorpion, a common pattern in tribal textiles. The rug society was founded 1981 by people whose interest are old oriental textiles. Group is working with a current exhibition, and the site features discussions, links and event information.
This provides a history and overview of Turkmen weavings. Around 1875, the Czarist Russian government finally succeeded in conquering the various groups, known collectively as the Turkmen confederation, who fiercely resisted all efforts to remove them from the area of southwest Russia. The war had lasted for several decades and the Turkmen, like the native Indians of the American southwest, were able to remain victorious against superior military technology and numbers. When the Russian government allocated tremendously increased resources and manpower (like the government of the United States did against the American Indians) they succeeded. Territorial imperatives were satisfied - at the expense of the total destruction the Turkmen (and as was the case in America, the American Indian) lifestyle, traditions and culture. More information includes photos of Turkmen rugs.
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