MOHAIR RUGS We are happy to introduce for 2020 our new plain mohair rug collection. A range of rugs produced in plain colours in beautiful soft mohair. Each mohair rug will be hand knotted into a plain colour suited to the contemporary interior. We will be able to supply any size...
LARGE ORIENTAL RUGS What makes a large Oriental Rug? An oriental rug is a heavy textile made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purposes and produced in “Oriental countries” for home use, local sale, and export. Oriental carpets can be pile woven or flat woven without pile, using...
SUZANI RUGS At the Emma Mellor Handmade Rugs we have produced a new range of Suzani rugs but what is a Suzani? Traditionally Suzani is a type of embroidered tribal textile made in Central Asian countries, notably Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Iran. The term Suzani is derived from the Persian word suzan...
What is a tribal rug? A tribal or nomadic rug is one produced in a more primitive method and intended for use by the weaver and family rather than a commercial venture. NOMADIC PERSIAN LORI from EMMA MELLOR HANDMADE RUGS Many of these rugs are traded but usually...
LARGE RUGS Handmade rugs come in a full range of sizes, from small mats to extremely large room size rugs. What we would describe as a large rug would be typically over 4m x 3m (13ft x 10ft) but specialist pieces can be as much as 10 meters in length. Large rugs...
