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3/10/2007 Nice article on one of our Trusted Dealers:P-I features Thea Sands and Emmanuel's Rug & Upholstery Cleaners of Seattlesee also:
What do people in England really Want?Here are the top nine Google
searches that people in England used to get to my rug notes here on
SpongoBongo so far this month Feb. 8 2007 Best wishes, - Barry New Pages on Persian Gabbeh rugsI added a few new pages on Persian Gabbeh rugs. I intend
to make a much more comprehensive Guide To Gabbeh Rugs. 2/27/2007 Rippon Boswell Wiesbaden has major rug sales but it also as minor sales as well. Some of these can be very interesting as well. Auction 680 will be held March 10, 2007. I spotted a few pieces that I found interesting. Here are a few I added to the Rug Notes: Baluch
Rugs: Baluch Bagface early 20th C Rippon Boswell Lot 18 Best wishes, Barry 2/25/2007 Sometimes the easiest way to fix
something is to start over. My main guide to Persian Rugs is a mess so
I started a new page and I am cleaning up the old information as the
beginning of rewriting it. The first part can be seen at: 2/23/2007 I added some more pages. I
also added in a Blog to keep track of changes to my sites. I
keep trying to improve this site and some things work and some things
do not. we will see how the blog works out. Readership has shown steady
increases in the last 6 months so someone reads this stuff. 2/18/2007 Jim Allen has posted an exceptional Shulaver Kazak on eBay. Rare Antique Schulaver Kazak Caucasian Rug from a-bey Barry Rare Antique Schulaver Kazak Caucasian Rug from a-bey 2/18/2007 I mentioned the help I get from John Wertime yesterday and I should mention a few others. Ed Krayer has been gathering the images of the backs of rugs which has been a real help. It is easy to get good images of the fronts of rugs but close-ups are harder to get. Another friend who has been a big help over the years is Jim Allen. Just today he shared these images: Teke/Tekke 180 KPSI single wefted Tekke khalyk from Jim Allen. I will try to mention more of the people who have helped me build this site. Barry 2/17/2007 I edited the Notes on Shah Abbas and then I added a page on Shah Tahmasp Safavi. It also mentions the The Perez Topkapi Prayer Rug. This is one of many rugs pages that I have written then lost. I am never sure how I do it but I have found at least a dozen pages that were not linked in anywhere. Yesterday I edited over 1,000 pages and whenever I do that if brings out things that I missed. I got a thank you this week from John Wertime. God bless him, John is a real gentleman and I really appreciate the way he shares what he has and what he knows. John's note combined with The Perez Topkapi Prayer Rug made me think of another dealer in London. Some dealers are not like John they hide what they know and never share even as much as a picture from their inventory. So I decided to do two things; publicly acknowledge John Wertime as a great guy and the other thing is to edit my list of recommended London dealers. Here is a page on new Afghan rug production that takes an interesting twist. Silk Rugs in a Kabul Workshop 2007 Barry 2/13/2007 Today was a grand day, a glorious day. I woke up feeling great and got to work early. I knocked off all my work with ease and took on some new tasks. After work I started a guide to Chinese art. A massive task but I decided to start with Blue and White Porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty. I added in some Ming pieces and a cinnabar lacquer dish since they intrigued me. Yuan porcelain intrigues me because it shows up in Persian miniatures and that influences Persian Carpets even to this day. It is barely started but you can see the new section at: Chinese Art. I would be further along but I had snow to shovel Barry 2/12/2007 In my notes we deal with collectable rugs, tribal rugs, rugs of ethnographic significance and many others but there is something about great Persian Carpets on the floor. Persian Carpets are a great love of mine. I enjoy a wide range of oriental rugs but my heart is always lead back to the great Persian Carpets of Iran. Is saying Iran when I say Persian Carpets Redundant? Maybe but we need to remind people that if it was not made in Iran it is not a Persian Carpet. If I had to pick my favorite Persian Carpets I tend to go with the big six Isfahan Carpets, Kashan Carpets, Kerman Carpets, Sarouk Carpets, Tabriz Carpets, and Heriz Carpets. By the way did you ever try Google images for SpongoBongo? We also deal with the cultures of the Middle East and Southwest Asia this is from a note that a friend send me: The Iranian American Parents Association
Celebrates NowRuz 1386! Barry 2/2/7 Hello, I spotted a nice new article on classic carpets: A Turkotek Digital Field Trip: The Victoria and Albert Museum by Chuck Wagner. It looks well worth reading. Hello, I just posted a brand new Kelardasht Rugs / Kalardasht Rugs Guide. I added in some images of Mazanderan province. The further I get into this project the more I feel it is important to show more than just rugs. We need to see the rugs as a product of the people. I just remember that I have to revise the guide. Kelardasht is in a small enclave of Northern Kurds. The rest of the province is Mazandarani which is an Indo-European people close to Baluch or Talysh. I have to remember to add the language in, after all weaving is non-verbal language.. Barry
Best wishes for the Holiday Season and Happy ChristmasI hope you are having a wonderful Holiday season. Our Christmas Celebration is in full swing here at the O'Connell House. Jodi just finished wrapping the last of the presents and we were able to get the boys what they wanted. Monty is 4 Mickey is 8 and Max is 11, and they did not really ask for much this year so it was fairly simple. Church was odd tonight. In a Christian church one expects Jesus in the sermon. We went to my Mother-in-law's church and the poor pastor talks about everything but Jesus. We moved up to Williamsport Pa. this year and finding a good church has been a major problem. By the way I always wonder how to handle Christmas greetings when I know many, maybe even most of you, are not believers. This year I noticed that I got as many Christmas greetings from my Moslem friends as I did from Christian friends so I am just going to be me and hope I do not offend too many of you. Work is going well, I am taking a break from IT and am doing an Internet startup for a national ad agency. It is drawing on a great deal of experience I developed over the years so I find it fun. Ideas that grew out of when I ran the database team for the Dems in the last presidential race are now coming to fruition. In the 13 battle ground states we targeted voters down to the precinct level. Now I am focusing on new ways to target market down to the zip code level and into the neighborhood level for our clients at a cost effective basis. One of our efforts is www.TenPenny.com the site is live and we are launching in Arizona in January. Merry Christmas! Barry O'Connell November 30, 2006 Christmas, Cancer and Caring, A time for Joy?About three months ago I met a young man who shares some interests with me. Jerry Frear was an account executive at the Advertising company where I now work. Jerry handles the interactive media and also magazines for two of our international clients. Like me Jerry is a Christian and we are also both fans of marketing guru Seth Godin. In fact I spotted Jerry the first time because he had a Purple Cow in his cube. Anyway I hijacked Jerry and pulled him onto my team. That did not last long since management grabbed Jerry and made him a Vice President in one of our new companies. Jerry also has an active ministry in the inner city making Christmas a little merrier for disadvantaged youth and the homeless. Jerry organizes a yearly effort to get gift boxes into the hands of the needy. This year things are taking off as Jerry's gift box concept is spreading to other cities. With his beautiful wife and two great teenage children, two promotions (and a raise) and Christmas weeks away Jerry should be on top of the world, right? Well this week Jerry tested positive for cancer. Treatment starts next week and I can see Jerry is worried. But instead of slowing down Jerry is working twice as hard to make sure that as many disadvantaged youth and the homeless people are cared for. If you are a believer keep Jerry in your prayers. Jerry is also a blogger and you can read him at http://becomingmissional.blogspot.com/ November 27, 2006 Where Are the Turkmen salt bags?Robert Upfold of Australia posted a good question on www.Turkotek.com "Yomud Salt bags Dr. Steve Price the moderator of the group answered: "Hi Robert Now no disrespect meant to Steve Price but I think I see the problem in that whole thread. The so-called sat bags are for rock salt for sheep. They are not bags for salt for human consumption. Why would a shepherd need to carry a multi-year supply of salt for his own consumption? How then is the salt used? Shepherds who follow a transhumance style grazing pattern often need to hit the high meadows above the available springs. A shepherd will "salt" a flock by giving them chunks of rock salt to lick and then they drink more and retain water. With the retained water the sheep can go higher uphill for longer before they need to be watered again. This way they can get more grass and be more profitable to the flock owner. There is a United Nations document that makes note of similar usage in Chinese Occupied Turkestan. See Transhumant grazing systems in temperate Asia... http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/Y4856E/y4856e0b.htm Why no Yomut saltbags? Simple enough
really, salt bags are used where needed and not carried by shepherds
with no need to salt a flock. The salinity of the soil and forage and
the lack of high meadows without water means that the Turkmen had
little use for them. I hope I do not get any kooky emails from John
Howe about this note. He feels that mentioning Turkotek
at all is ridiculing them which is certainly not my purpose here. November 25, 2006 Hello, November 22, 2006Sotheby's Fall Carpet Sale and the Vojtech Blau Sale and Happy Thanksgiving!Hello, November 20, 2006 Hello, I just revised the Guide to Chinese Rugs:
and Chinese
Rug expert Kim Esber was kind enough to help me on Nichols
Chinese Rugs. As we were talking Kim mentioned Sam Hakim and we
realized that somehow Sam had been left off the Guide
to the Best Carpet Dealers of New York. I called Harold
Keshishian and he told me that Sam is a highly respected rug
dealer and was a great friend to Uncle
Jimmy Keshishian. So I added him in to the list.
November 10, 2006 Hello This has been an exhausting Fall season for me. I am settled in rural Pennsylvania with my family and work is good. After consulting for 13 years it is good to settle down as CIO of a nice size company. Just for the fun of it I dabbled in Pa. politics and ended up on local TV 222 times. We had some wins and a loss but all in all it was a good season. Most importantly we got Bob Casey as our senator. Casey's dad was Governor Bob Casey who was a classmate and neighbor of my father. I went to school with one of the senator's older sisters. They are nice people who in the close to 70 years that we have known them have been honest decent hardworking people. The reorganization of the Rug Notes is going well. I keep finding long lost pages and I have been working to inter-link them with the existing pages. Content is great but if it is not easily accessible then it does little good. In the mean time I have stopped getting weird, bizarre, taunting emails from John Howe. Why some people feel compelled to start a fuss is completely beyond me. John was upset because I had a kind word for a woman who is a regular poster on Turkotek that John felt was beneath his exalted delusions of the Turkotek crew. Most of them are really nice people with good knowledge but John seems to feel he can judge who is worthy and who is not. It is one thing to disagree with someone but why attack them categorizing them as "clearly a troubled soul". I suppose the best thing to do is pray for poor John. In the mean time judge each of us here or on www.Turkotek.com on the merit of their contribution rather than participating in high school style cliques. Disagreeing with John Howe does not automatically mean someone is mentally unstable in fact agreeing too often with John might mean quite the opposite. If you are interested in Persian
Rugs visit Ali Amiri's www.RugArt.org.
Most of it is in Farsi but I always enjoy the English section. October 23, 2006. Yayla Tribal Rugs and Child Labor:Child Labor is not an issue in
Persian Rugs or most other rug producing countries. However India,
Pakistan, and Afghanistan still have a problem. Take a look at how one
well known American company uses children. Notes
on Chris Walters October 21, 2006. Hello, Another week goes by and I keep
plugging away on this site. I have been fixing links and finding lost
pages. Things got interrupted by surgery on Friday. Nothing serious but
it cuts into my time. Time is the enemy. I took on a political campaign
and developed a new marketing tool for our biggest clients. Life is
going at frantic pace and this site gives me a refuge from day to day
stress. October 13, 2006. Hello, October 12, 2006. Hello friends and readers, So for now I beg your patience. I am not in the rug business and this is a little something I do after the children go to bed. Recently I went through a major shift in my life. I moved from the Washington DC Area to a small town to take over as CIO of a national advertising company. It is a stretch to go from from computer consulting to a management role. But it is nice to see bear, turkey, deer, and hawks from the office windows. A small note about navigation around
the sites. www.SpongoBongo.com
has far more pages and www.PersianCarpetGuide.com
has more guides. I have links to both and the two sites link back and
forth extensively. In some cases I have multiple guides to the same
subject. I stated this over 10 years ago and different versions can
address different aspects. I discover now and then that I am wrong
about something. I think one of the strengths of this project is that I
edit and revise as I learn. Copyright
Barry O'Connell 2004 - 2006.
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