Antique Persian Carpets

A 100 Year Battle Over Fine Oriental & Persian Rugs?

Online PR News – 25-August-2011 –(Houston, Texas) – There is a war going on right here in Houston and most people don’t even know it is going on. Granted, most of the battles have been fought inside of legislative sessions, courtrooms, and marketing departments and there is no recorded blood shed or deaths related to the fight. However, to Alan Taghdisi, owner of Oriental Rug Bazaar, and other legitimate hand-woven oriental rug dealers – the war is one worth fighting and they are winning.

Oriental Rug Bazaar has been here for over 100 years – and has never advertised they were Going out of Business, that All Sales Final, or that Everything Must Go. Instead the company has focused on educating the buyers, providing excellent customer service, and by only selling authentic hand-woven Oriental rugs and tapestries of the highest quality.

With authentic, hand-woven Oriental rugs selling for anywhere from the low $1,000’s upwards to over $5,000,000 – there is a lot of money to be made from scam artists selling fakes. Texas Business and Commerce codes include sections like 17.82 which state: “(a) A person may not conduct a sale advertised with the phrase "going out of business," "closing out," "shutting doors forever," or "bankruptcy sale"; the word "foreclosure" or "bankruptcy"; or a similar phrase or word indicating that an enterprise is ceasing business unless the business is closing all of its operations in a county and in all of the counties immediately adjacent to that county and follows the procedures required by this subchapter. “ These laws are meant to help protect consumers from unethical sales tactics but there are loop holes and always shysters who are willing to risk the small fines and penalties that are rarely harsh enough to discourage criminals from preying on consumers. As a result, legitimate Oriental rug dealers have the added pressure to constantly prove their trust-worthiness.

Antique Persian Rugs, Antique Persian Carpets, Persian Rugs, Persia

Among the carpet-producing regions of the Middle East none is as varied and extensive in its output, or perhaps as ancient, as Iran. It is possible that fragments of ninth century pile carpets discovered at Fostat near Cairo were imported from Iran. In any case, large-scale carpet weaving is attested in Iran by the Mongol or Ilkhanid period c. 1300, as well as for the subsequent Timurid period up through the late fifteenth century. During this time a great revival, Iranian weavers recaptured much of the range and quality of the classical Persian predecessors, both at old centers like Tabriz and Kerman, as well as in many new areas of Production like Sultanabad or Kashan. Since that time Persian carpets have been made in an almost dizzying array of styles from the finest urban productions to the boldest village and nomadic pieces .