The Rug Show @ Javits

SEPTEMBER 7 – 10, 2014

JAVITS CENTER NYC www.therugshow.com

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A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN AND AFGHANISTAN CREATING JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN PROVIDING DAY-CARE FOR CHILDREN MANUFACTURING ONE-OF-A-KIND RUGS

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Darling Winter Lake, from the Amour Wool & Silk Rug Collection

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888.726.2393 THE WORLD’S FINEST DECORATIVE RUGS

United States-East Rutherford, NJ Tel: 201 372 0909 • Great Britain-London, England Tel: 020 8800 4406 © All designs copyright Samad Brothers, Inc.

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Over 10,000 hand knotted rugs available on the website and ready to be shipped today to qualified Dealers.

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Capa

Oriental Rugs, Furniture, Outdoor Teak, Lamps, Asian Antiques, Rug Upholstered Ottomans, Headboards, Aubusson Pillows, Accessories

Capa Atlanta Merchandise Mart • Building One, Showroom 11-F-8 Capa Headquarters and Showroom in High Point • 319 North Main Street (336) 885-9999 Capa • Frederick, MD • 52 South Market Street (301) 696-0066

9 Smedley Drive • Newtown Square, PA 19073 Phone: 610-425-1060 ModernTribalArts@gmail.com • www.ModernTribalArts.com

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HOTEL DISCOUNT A block of deeply discounted rooms is available at the luxury 4.5 Star Hudson Hotel NY in Midtown.

The Rug Show rate is $99 per night/ 2 night max.

Call for reservations and mention The Rug Show: (800) 606-6090. Additional room nights are available at special rates. Space is Limited.

BREAKFAST DAILY All attendees are invited to join us for continental breakfast and coffee daily at the Javits Center.

INFORMATIVE SEMINARS The Rug Show will feature valuable CEU approved seminars for ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) and IIDA (International Interior Design Association) Members.

SEPT 7 — DINNER PARTY Kick off The RUG SHOW Sunday evening, Sept. 7 at our Opening Day Cocktail/Dinner Party.

Registration is REQUIRED at the Javits Center during show hours to obtain your credentials and for complete venue details.

SEPTEMBER 7–10 2014 JAVITS CENTER NYC

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e look forward to seeing you this fall at our third annual event showcasing the most innovative and cutting edge designs from some of the industry’s most renowned producers and wholesalers. See you there!

SHOW HOURS SUN. 9 - 6 MON. 9 - 6 TUES. 9 - 6 WED. 9 - 12 Held in conjunction with Metro Market Week 11.

Come see us at The Javits Center, New York September 7 - 10, 2014

Angora Ushak Collection Reproductions of late 19th/early 20th century Oushaks. Premium Angora wool is blended with high plateau Anatolian wool, resulting in high color luminosity.

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Vintage Collection In Vintage Collection, we transform semi-antique Turkish rugs to a remarkable new composition.Through the power of intense color, we salvage the old and imperfect, evolving it to the unpredictable, innovative, dramatic new collection.

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Vestige Collection In Vestige Collection, semi-antique Turkish rugs are salvaged; dyed in contemporary colors and hand stitched, evolving them into a new organic, imperfect yet charismatic new collection.

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Sept. 7-10

One of the Lar gest Sources of Fine Pakistani Rugs in the USA

K A S H E E 600 Meadowlands Parkway, Suite 21 • Secaucus, NJ 07094 Tel: (201) 867-6900• Fax: (201) 867-6980 email: customercare@kashee.us • website: www.kashee.us Showrooms: Atlanta - AmericasMar t #4-E-12 • New Jersey

See us this fall The Rug Show@Javits Sept. 7-10

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e look forward to seeing you at our annual event showcasing the most innovative and cutting edge designs from some of the industry’s most renowned producers and wholesalers. Don’t miss the informative CEU approved industry seminars, free continental breakfast daily — plus our signature kick-off party Sunday evening. See you there!

SHOW HOURS SUN. 9 - 6 MON. 9 - 6 TUES. 9 - 6 WED. 9 - 12

AU G.30 - SE PT.5, 2015 JAVITS CENTER NYC . HALL 1-B Held in conjunction with Metro Market Week 12.

MARCH 29-31, 2015 L A C O N V E N TIO N CE N TER The Rug Show is a non-profit organization. For more information, visit www.therugshow.com.

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Make plans to see us in sunny LA at our third annual West-coast edition of THE RUG SHOW!

Come and see us at The Rug Show @ Javit Center, New York on September 7-10, 2014.

9030 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA 90211 T: 310-271-7882 F: 310-271-7827 azadusa@sbcglobal.net www.AZADUSA.net

Come and see us at The Rug Show @ Javit Center, New York on September 7-10, 2014.

9030 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA 90211 T: 310-271-7882 F: 310-271-7827 azadusa@sbcglobal.net www.AZADUSA.net

Carpet Making and Ecology: “Green” Rugs

by James Opie Before the invention of aniline dyes, all handmade rugs were “green” in many ways, including a way few could have predicted. During rare periods of severe economic instability, including the collapsed German economy following World War II, Oriental rugs served as a medium of exchange. They functioned as money. I learned this from a customer after opening my retail store in Portland in 1975. A German-American who was fourteen at the close of the war, he recalled a question his parents often heard during the period when German money was worthless and new currency had yet to be printed.

Those with quantities of food to barter asked, “Do you have gold, diamonds, or Oriental rugs?” This man admired handmade rugs but acquired them primarily due to having heard that question so often in the months following the war. “When money is not any good,” he told himself, “be sure to own some Oriental rugs.” For him, rugs were better than “green money,” or currency of any color.

That was before the vegetable-dye renaissance of the mid- to late-1980s, and some of the rugs this man purchased, rarely spending more than two or three hundred dollars for a piece, contained synthetic dyes. Had his worst fears materialized and he again heard that question, his rug acquisitions containing synthetically dyed yarns could not have made the grade. Even in 1975, the question would have been refined to focus on vegetaldyed rugs, and perhaps ones made before 1920.

The consequence of using aniline and chrome dyes still impacts the value of tens of thousands of antique pieces. Fortunately, during the mid-to late-1980s, a great “return to vegetable-dyes” was spearheaded by the DOBAG project in Turkey, by Woven Legends, and by my Iranian friend Abbas Sayahi, who did not return to “honest dyes” because he never left them. Today, growing numbers of rugs are woven with vegetal-dyed yarns, a bedrock feature of my own production in Afghanistan.

Talk about green! The wool is in these rugs is sheared by hand, from sheep who live to produce another crop of wool next year. The wool is then spun by hand, without leaning on Afghanistan’s limited capacity for generating electricity. The gathering and growing of vegetal dye-stuffs, following ancient customs and methods, damages nothing while providing income for growing numbers of individual villagers and farming families.

Unlike synthetic dyes, disposing of residues from natural dyes leaves streams and surface soils unpolluted.

Further, no weaver’s hands are dyed with who-knows-what, and when these rugs are thirty, fifty, or one-hundred years old they will not go into dumpsters, on their way to landfills. They will, I predict, be treasured, as will the traditionally oriented products of many American and European importers, who nod politely to fleeting trends while sticking resolutely to their principles.

While my own connections in Afghanistan date to my first trip there in 1973, the vegetal-dye portion of my efforts lean on the inspired influence of Chris Walter, of Yayla Tribal Rugs and Alex and Ahmad Ahmadi of Ariana, Fred Hazin, and others. My friend Abbas Sayahi helped, too, as trail-blazing dyers who first “returned” to vegetal dyes in Afghanistan were trained by him in his large facility near Shiraz.

To prepare for the future we first need to believe in it, carrying what worked best in the past through this period of cultural crisis, with its many attacks on traditional aesthetics. A person can label as “art” anything he or she wants. But quality is not infinitely flexible. Today’s high-quality “green” rugs are a testament to the timeless attraction to the real and the beautiful. Many importers are putting their green-money on the line, and generations to come will thank us.

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ELIKO Antique & Decorative Rugs

102 Madison Avenue 4th floor New York City 212-725-1600 www.elikorugs.com www.elikocustomrugs.com dena@elikorugs.com

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THE COLLECTION

The Afghanistan of our day-to-day media is a broken nation, living closer to despair than to hope. Our project— linking skilled Afghan rug weavers with North Americans who appreciate special rugs—leans toward the hope side of the equation.

In selecting a piece from The James Opie Collection, discerning consumers join a network of relationships sustaining hope in Afghanistan. Simultaneously, everyone experiencing these rugs is nourished by their beauty.

Learn more: www.jamesopie-rugs.com

We c o r d i a l l y i n v i t e y o u t o c o m e a n d s e e u s at The Rug Show@Javits Javits Center, NYC | September 7-10

Our collection consists of carpets from different Origins, s u c h a s I n d i a , P a k i s t a n , P e r s i a a n d Tu r k e y.

NEMAN INTERNATIONAL INC.

501 Penhorn Avenue, Unit 8 • Secaucus, NJ 07094 Tel: 201-590-0000 • Fax: 201-590-0099 • www.nemanintl.com • email: nemaninc@aol.com

CARAVAN RUG CORP.

Traditional Modern Transitions to

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SEPTEMBER 7–10 2014 JAVITS CENTER NYC Welcome to our third annual event showcasing the most innovative and cutting edge designs from some of the industry’s most renowned producers and wholesalers.

www.therugshow.com 2014 Exhibitors Afghan Made Carpets AGS Rugs Amici Imports Anadol Rug Co Ariana Rugs Art Resources Ayka Design Azad Rug Company Azad USA Capa Imports Caravan Rug Corporation

Eliko Antique & Decorative Rugs HRI James Opie Kalaty Kashee & Sons, Inc. Lawrence of La Brea Matt Camron Rugs & Tapestries Michaelian & Kohlberg Mobayen Modern Tribal Arts Momeni Nalbandian Nasiri

The Rug Show is a non-profit organization. For more information, visit www.therugshow.com.

Neman International Pasargad Carpets Robin Gray Design Romani Rugs Rugzy S & H Rugs Samad Slocum Rug Gallery The Creative Touch Thibault Van Renne Tissage Wool and Silk Rugs