Rug Buying Tips

Never shopped for a Persian rug before? Start by educating yourself. It seems like there are enough unique rugs and styles for each person in the world. Here is everything you need to know before you start sifting through the piles of handmade Persian rugs:

Shape & Size:
Size matters. Size and shape should be considered, depending on your taste, furniture, and space. Are you going to use a palace-sized rug for the centerpiece of a large room, or do you need a few small rugs for fun accents around the house? Runners look great in hallways, while round, oval, and square rugs might be best suited for your office space. Rectangular rugs are by far the most common shape and more widely available. A good dealer should have an array of shapes and sizes, including some of the rare non-rectangular shapes.

Design Elements:
Colors are key. Everyone sees color in slightly different ways. The colors of handmade Persian rugs can vary from dominant, rich, red hues to calm beige and camel variations. You'll find that the color of your rug seems to vary over the course of the day, as natural lighting has a magical effect on the wool and silk materials of high quality rugs. And you might feel that there are too many complex colors in one rug. You will be amazed, however, when some subtle colors in a complex design are enhanced by the color of your walls, furniture, or floors. It's a good idea to try a rug in your home for a few days, weeks, or months (depending on the policies of your dealer) before you decide to keep it.

Consider styles, but don't limit yourself. It really does seem like there are enough unique rugs and styles for each person in the world. Rug styles involve everything from complex, curvilinear designs to basic and colorful animal shapes. You might prefer the playful Gabbehs with bold blocks of colors and a thick pile over the luxurious feeling of a silk Qum with over 400 knots per square inch.

In the end, what you need to know before you buy a handmade Persian rug is what you like. Try to spend your time searching, asking lots of questions, and you will fall in love with the right rug as you unroll it in your family room.

Area Rugs - Tips for Selection

Area rugs and carpets are a beautiful contribution to any room in your home. As one walks in a room, it is often the first thing to catch the eye. Hence selecting the right area rug or oriental carpet can create lasting impressions in the decor of your home.

Hand made area rugs are still considered the best available area rug product and they possess a look and feel that is superior to most machine made rugs. You will find that most handmade area rugs use high quality wool for construction simply because wool seems to last much longer and stand up to heavier amounts of traffic than most other fibers. So pay attention to the material used to make the area rug.

The weaving process of a hand made rug can be important too as the more densely the knots are placed together the higher quality of the rug or carpet. This is referred to as knots per square inch and hand made carpets can boast a weave density of anywhere from 100 - 750 knots per square inch. Of course, such high quality hand made area rugs can be a little more expensive, but if used in the correct surroundings and treated as a piece of fine furniture that is cared for properly, they will last for many years and look incredibly beautiful at the same time.

So when you choose an area rug, first determine where it will go and try to match the decor of that room as much as possible, then choose the level of quality that will match your budget, and you will be able to make a wise choice.

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Area Rugs - Only the finest, handmade kind, are the speciality of www.eRugGallery.com. Through our inventory of over 20,000 handmade rugs, we offer styles like Persian, Contemporary, Tibetan, Chinese, Turkish, Modern, Caucasian and Indian designs, to name a few. Our area rugs are like pieces of art - They will adorn your space and become an inherent part of their surroundings. Try our area rugs before you buy it, using our risk free policy. Celebrate the handmade rug!