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Image Carpets staff is proud to service the antique oriental rugs community for the last 4 generations! We have a large collection of antique rugs and carpets for all sort of requirements. You are cordially invited to browse our web site, or contact us for further assistance. You can also review our collection at our gallery which is located at 33 East 33rd St, Ste 303 (corner of Park Ave), in New York. We will ship any item on an approval base if you can not visit our showroom, and we also accept all major credit cards.
Select from a wide range of styles, colors, and designs. Image Carpets, Inc, offers you a world-class collection of decorative antique European carpets and hand-made Oriental rugs including, Aubusson, hand woven wool Tabriz, Oushak and many more. Hand made Agra, Sultanabad, Kashan and Kerman rugs and legendary, if you'll excuse our name dropping. We have an extensive array of those difficult and large size of hand made carpets, so often sought after by leading interior designers.
Image Carpets is located in New York City, and offers the trade, designers and retail clients a discerning choice of hand-made antique Persian, Indian, Turkish and European rugs and other oriental hand made carpets. Our showroom is a wonderland of 18th to early 20th century pieces of antique, and semi-antique hand crafted rugs, which have been carefully selected for their suitability to the European and American aesthetic preferences. Both classic looks, and unique, one-of-a-kind works of art are available. We also offer various services to help you protect and preserve your cherished antique rugs, carpets and tapestries, including hand washing, conservation, restoration and insurance valuation.
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Things to be considered while buying the best antique rugs NYC :
It is an admitted fact that handmade antique rugs are one of the ways to reflect the history at its best. No doubt they are an excellent blend of wonderful designs, flawless craftsmanship and image of cultural and social background of past days. They are considered as the priceless possessions.
It is worth mentioning that antique rugs are offered at higher price but if you get one then no doubt it will be a useful investment for you. In order to have a priceless rug one needs to have appropriate knowledge about these antique carpet. It will not only save you time but it will save you a lot of money as well. Underlined are some of the tips for an ordinary man while buying an antique rug:
The foremost thing that needs to be well understood is that how it has been made. It means that it should be handmade or hand woven. Quality and longevity of the rug depends on how it has been made. It must be kept in mind that older the Indian handmade rug will be higher will be its cost.
The colors of the genuine rugs are natural. In simple words, it means that genuine rugs will have vegetable or plant dyes adorning them with elegance and natural richness.
Groundwork of the antique rugs is made up of cotton or silk. At the same time, the weavers are made up of silk, natural Chinese rugs wool, silver or gold thread.
These genuine antique rugs are hand knotted. Keep it in mind that higher number of knots per square inch determines the higher quality of the hand made Persian rugs.
It has been observed that the demand for these antique rugs has been increasing with every passing day. One of the foremost reasons for this is that these rugs are becoming rare. These precious pieces of art can be secured for longer periods of times if we preserve them in the right manner. It does not matter whether they are antique, collectible, old or decorative, all these handmade Oriental rugs are no doubt depict excellent piece of art work.
We at Image Carpets Fine Antique Rugs NYC have been in business since the 1970's, that is three generations of Image Carpets' dealing in the Persian Rug business. We have been a leading exporter to the European market for over 30 years and our reputation for customer service and knowledge is well deserved. Not only do we have an excellent selection of antique Persian carpets, we also have a variety of commercial grade carpets as well. Our selection ranges from small prayer rugs to large room silk Heriz rugs over 20 feet by 30 feet as well as runners for hall ways etc that are over 34 feet long. Our inventory is from all over the world and includes antique decorative hand made rugs and antique handmade hook rugs. We also offer consignment sales to dealers, wholesalers, decorators and designers.
Not only do we sell these beautiful handmade oriental rugs, we also offer professional cleaning, stain removal and professional repairs.
We take great pride in the fact that most of our selection of merchandise is from estate sales and auctions. This saves us and you a great deal of money.
Our inventory changes daily and so we recommend that you check our online directory often. There you will find that our hand made Persian rugs photographs are not enhanced or touched up in any way.
