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Selling Your Oriental Rug? Authenticate area Rugs: Antique, New, Round Rug, Square Rug, or Rectangle!

August 15, 2008

Rug Rag Verifications provide your Oriental Rug with a Professional "Report Card" for Online Retailers and Private Parties alike. A Rug Rag Verification sets reputable sellers apart from the rest of the crowd with our Rug Rag Badge, building consumer confidence that an Independent, third party has reviewed and confirmed up to 20 characteristics of Hand Made Oriental Carpets and Area rugs.

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How to Create a Rug Rag Verification for Oriental Rugs and Carpets: Steps 4-6

August 15, 2008

Your Rug's Report Card, Copying HTML, Pasting to eBay or Other Online Venues!

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How to Create a Rug Rag Verification for Oriental Rugs and Carpets: Steps 1-3

August 15, 2008

Remember, it is in your best interest to supply as many (no more than 10) images of your rug. The better the quality of your photographs, the more characteristics we will be able to verify. This in turn will make your Rug Rag Verification Certificate stronger, for greater potential in high resale value! You want to get top dollar for your Oriental Rug, so please be sure to take good quality, high resolution photographs. Images should be properly cropped, with no additional Photoshop or other program augmentation unless the goal is to accurately adjust color balance.

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Q&A: How to Recycle Hand Tufted Rugs?

August 14, 2008

A reader recently send an email correspondence to see if we were aware of any recycling programs out there for hand tufted rugs...

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The Cosby Show! Inside the Huxtable Home: Oriental Rugs and Carpets

August 12, 2008

The mid 1980's "Cosby Show" brought a lot of laughs to a big audience. What rugs are inside the Huxtable home on their floor? Rug Rag takes a look into the interior at 4 of the rugs as seen in the vestibule, living room, and stair landing.

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More About Rug Rag (RugRag.com)

Specializing in: Rugs | Area Rugs | Antique Rugs | Oriental Rugs | Appraisals

RugRag.com is a blog with industry insider perspective geared toward educating consumers on how to make informed purchasing decisions for rugs of any kind: Area rugs, antique rugs, Oriental rugs, machine made and Persian rugs. We address carpet markets the United States and International.

Our primary focus for education includes area rugs, antique rugs, Oriental rugs and Persian rugs of all types. More detailed entries encompass evaluation of antique rugs, area rugs, chainstitch, dhurrie, flatweave, hand knotted, hand tufted, needlepoint and Oriental rugs of all ages and sizes. We also have helpful buyers guides for new rugs, antique rugs, including mansion size, palace size, and all oversized pieces, including evaluation of the most expensive rugs ever sold, auction watch and many more.

Our Rug Appraisals focus on the values of antique rugs, semi antique rugs, and new rugs including modern contemporary and traditional. Online appraisals may not be honored for replacement value in insurance situations, in which case we may refer our clients to local reputable rug appraisers for appraisal, or travel to you ourselves. We cover the Northeast United States and New England with in-person appraisals when needed, with a focus on the Tri-state area of CT (Fairfield, New Have, & Hartford), NJ (Bergen, Hudson, Sussex, Passaic, Essex, Union and Morris), NY and NYC (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Long Island, and Staten Island) as well as Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties.

The Rug Rag appraisal approach for antique rugs and appraisals of antique rugs may encompass International markets. Newer rug appraisals are primarily geared toward the US Market. States for which we have provided Rug Appraisals to, or provided in person referrals for new and Antique Rugs include: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OK, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY, and counties within.

Our most popular rug appraisals include antique rugs such as Arak, Bakshaish, Bidjar, Caucasian, Ferahan, Hadji Jalil, Heriz, Isfahan, Kashan, Kazak, Kerman, Kermani, Kermanshah, Laver Kerman, Mohtashem Kashan, Nichols, Oushak, Sarouk, Serapi, Sultanabad, Yazd and many more. Newer rug Appraisals we commonly address are American Sarouk, Arak, Ardebil, Ardekan, Bokhara, Chinese 90 line, Chobi, Gabbeh, Isfahan, Jaipur, Karastan, Kashmir, Kashmir silk, Kilim, Mashad, Nain, Heriz, Nichols art deco, Pakistan Caucasian, Peshawar, Qum, Sarouk, Tabriz and many more.

 
     

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