Notes on customers, their expectations, and their understanding of hand made rugs
We had a couple come into the store this morning looking for a rug, or rugs, "to cover a lot of area." The husband was most interested in the feel of the rugs. He kept running his hands over the front of the rugs and muttering that, "It's too thin." I showed them about five Oriental rugs, two or three were Persian rugs (from Iran) and the others were from Pakistan. Now, I knew that they wanted at least one area rug, maybe more, but I couldn't get either one to comment on what they liked, what they really wanted, or what their rug budget was. Finally I got him to open up a bit and he told me that for the prices we were asking that the rugs should be much thicker - like his plush carpets at home.
This, strangely enough, is fairly common. People somehow equate thickness with quality. The thickness of a rug is to be found in the traditions of the weaver and the country the weaver was trained in. Some of our best rugs are thin - not at all like the plush carpets of my customer.
On to other matters. I had some questions about how to tell if a rug was hand made or machine made. The link below will take you to an article about telling how to tell the difference.
If you would like to read an article about how to test a rug ( Click here ) to see if they are hand made.
I was looking at a site on the Internet and came across this picture. It's kind of nice and I think you can order it by clicking on the name below. If anyone does order it, let me know how all of this clicking and buying works.
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I'm off and running for the rest of the week. I'll check back on this site next week. Art
