Preferred Auction Houses
Preferred because we find them wonderful to work with.
These auction houses have helped make this site as
successful as it is, thanks.
1334 York Avenue at 72nd St. New York, New York 10021,
USA
Tel: (212) 606-7000
http://www.sothebys.com/
Ritchies
Steve Ranger, Senior Vice-President and Rug Specialist
Toronto,
A well recommended auction house that is Canada's top rug
auction.
June Barrett: Direct
Line +44 (0) 1722 411854
Dr. Ian Bennett:
Direct
Line +44 (0) 1722 411854
Castle Street, Salisbury.
The email address of the Salerooms is: enquiries@woolleyandwallis.co.uk
The carpet department email is: junebarrett@woolleyandwallis.co.uk
www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk
All our catalogues are fully illustrated in colour and
the website is very easy to navigate. East sale is
on-line about two weeks before the date of the sale.
Uwe Jourdan Carpet Expert
Stuttgart Germany
http://www.auction.de/default.htm
jourdan@auction.de
Jourdan besides being a very accessible auction and
carpet expert is author of a number of rug books
including Uwe Jourdan, Oriental Rugs: Volume 5 --
Turkoman (1989).
Auktionshaus Rippon Boswell & Co.
Detlef and Christa Maltzahn
Friedrichstraße 45
65185 Wiesbaden
Phone 06 11-33 44 30
Fax 06 11-30 73 69
E-Mail: info@rippon-boswell-wiesbaden.de
http://www.rippon-boswell-wiesbaden.de/
220 San Bruno Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel (415) 861-7500
Fax (415) 861-8951
http://www.butterfields.com/rugs
Other Reputable Auction Houses
Mr. Walter Fischer Director/Owner
Franziskanerstr. 17-19, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Tel. +49 228/60420-0, Fax +49 228/60420-99
E-Mail auctions@boediger.com
http://www.boediger.com
New York, Rockefeller Center
Elisabeth Poole,
Department Head
Betsy Murphy
Tel: +1 212 636 2217
Fax: +1 212 636 4933
London, King Street
William Robinson,
International Specialist Head
Karin Dobbin
Specialist
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7389 2371
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7389 2215
http://www.christies.com/
Grogan & Company
Michael B. Grogan
22 Harris Street Dedham, Massachusetts 02026
Tel: 1-800-823-1020 Fax: 781-461-9625
http://www.groganco.com/
Grogans@Groganco.com
Rippon Boswell & Company
6 South Kensington Station Arcade, London SW7 2NA,
United Kingdom
Telephone: 44-171-589 4242 - Fax: 44-171-589 2592
http://www.rippon-boswell.com
Rippon Boswell & Co. AG
Kürbergstr. 25, CH-8049 Zürich, Switzerland
Telephone: 41-1-341-7854 - Fax: 41-1-341 6628
http://www.rippon-boswell.com
Rippon Boswell, Inc.
Suite 819 Windsor Tower, 5 Tudor City Place, New York,
NY 10017
Telephone: 1-212-599 5650 - Fax: 1-212-599 5651
Sloans Auction House
David Weiss Carpet Expert
Bethesda Maryland
Tel: 301-468-4911
Regularly includes carpets in other auctions but I never
heard of them doing an all carpet and textile auction.
Skinner, Inc.
Jo Kris Carpet Expert
63 Park Plaza, Boston Ma 02116
Tel: 617-3505400 and fax: 617-350-5429
357 Main Street Bolton, Ma. 01740
Tel: 508-779-6241 and Fax: 508-779-5144
Sotheby's
London, Olympia
Hammersmith Road, London W148UX, UK
Joshua Lumley, Head of Department, Rugs and Carpets
Tel: 44 20 7293 5151 & Fax: 44 20 7293 5935
joshua.lumley@sothebys.com
http://www.sothebys.com/
Bickenstaff and Knowles
Specialist Auctioneers of Handmade Oriental Carpets
6 The Arcade Thurloe Street London SW7 2NA
Telephone: 0171-589 7971 Fax: 0171 589 2592
Museums and Libraries
Armenian Library Museum of America, Inc
65 Main Street Watertown Mass 02172
Tel: 407-656-9508
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Ave Chicago Illinois
Tel: 313-443-3600
The Cleveland Museum of Art
University Circle 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH
44106-1797
Telephone: 216.421.7340, TDD: 216.421.0018
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 - 5:00, Wednesday
& Friday 10:00 - 9:00, Closed Mondays, July 4,
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day, Galleries
close early at 4:00 on December 24 and 31
The de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park near 10th Avenue and Fulton Street,
San Francisco, California
24-Hour Hotline at 415.863.3330
Open Wednesday through Sunday from 9:30 am to 5:00 p.m.
and on the first Wednesday of the month until 8:45 p.m.
Museum admission: $7 adults, $5 seniors 65 and over, $4
youth 12-17, children under 12 admitted free. The museum
is free on the first Wednesday of each month. Home of the
Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Collection.
Fogg Art Museum / Arthur M. Sackler Museum /
Busch-Reisinger Museum / Straus Center for Conservation
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-9400
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90036
(213) 857-6000, general information - (213) 857-0098, TDD
Hours - Noon to 8 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
Noon to 9 p.m., Friday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday and
Sunday Closed Wednesday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Admission - Adults, $6, Senior citizens 62+ and students
18+ with valid ID, $4, Ages 6-17, $1; ages 5 and under,
free, Admission is free to all on the second Tuesday of
each month.
Tickets for museum admissions, concerts, films, and
lectures are purchased at the ticket office on the Times
Mirror Central Court during regular museum hours and an
hour before each event. For ticket information call (213)
857-6010.
http://www.lacma.org/
Maltwood Art Museum & Gallery
University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3025 MS 8298
Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P2
Tel: (604) 721-8297 - Fax: (604) 721-8997
Collection of antique oriental carpets from Middle and
Far East.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10028
Recorded information (212) 535-7710; libraries and study
rooms (212) 879-5500; TTY (212)-879-0421.
Hours: Friday, Saturday 9:30-8:45; Sunday,
Tuesday-Thursday 9:30-5:15. Closed Monday and
Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1.
Admission: Free to Members and children under 12 with an
adult. $8 suggested for adults, $4 for students and
senior citizens, includes Main Building and The Cloisters
on the same day. No tickets are required for Special
Exhibitions unless noted.
The Museum For Textiles
55 Centre Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2H5
Telephone (416) 599-5321 Fax (416) 599-2911
Information (416) 599-5515
Hours: Tuesday 11:00 am. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday 11:00 am.
to 8:00 p.m. Thursday and Friday 11:00 am. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 12:00 am. to 5:00 p.m. Closed Monday
Admission: Adults $5.00, Students and Seniors $4.00,
Children under 12 free, Wednesday 5:00-8:00pm "Pay
what you can".
H.N. Pullar Library,
3rd floor of The Museum For Textiles
The Library offers an extensive, unique reference
collection of books, journals, newsletters and subject
files dealing with non-industrial textiles. Subject areas
- Textile History, Pattern and Design, Techniques,
Oriental Rugs and Carpets, and Textiles from around the
world.
Library Hours - Sunday: 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday and
Thursday: 1:00 to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.
and 5:00 to 7:30 p.m.
FUND. THYSSEN BORNEMISZA
Address: BDA MONESTIR, 9 BARCELONA, 08034
Telephone: 2801434-2801674-ATX:4810041-FAX:2041601
National Geographic Explorers Hall
17th & M Streets Washington DC
Tel: 202-857-7700 - Tickets
Middle East Institute
Washington DC 20036
Tel: 202-785-1141 - Main 202-785-0182-Library
Indianapolis Museum Of Art
Niloo Imani Paydar, Curator
1200 West 38th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46208.4196
General information, - 317.923.1331.
Civic Theatre box office - (317) 923-4597
Home of the Boucher Collection.
http://www.ima-art.org/geninfo/geninfo.html
Philadelphia Museum of Art
26th Street & the Benjamin Franklin Pkwy,
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Tel: (215) 763-8100
Tuesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday
evenings until 8:45 p.m. Closed Mondays and legal
holidays.
Admission - Members, free at all times.Non-members, $8
for adults and $5 for children under 18, students with
I.D. and senior citizens. Children 5 and under, free.
Sundays, free until 1:00 p.m.
http://pma.libertynet.org/index.html
George V. W. Smith Art Museum
222 State Street Springfield Mass 01103
Tel: 413-733-4214
Textile Museum
2320 S Street NW. Washington DC 20008-4088
Tel: 202-667-0441
Victoria & Albert Museum
London, UK.
Telephone +44 171-938 8500, Recorded information: General
V&A information +44 171-938 8441; current exhibitions
+44 171-938 8349. Research facilities, including opening
times +44 171-938 8676.
Opening Times: Monday 12.00-17.50, Tuesday to Sunday
10.00-17.50, Open every day except 24, 25, 26 December.
Entry Fees: Full price £5.00, concessions £3.00. Entry
is free for those under 18, students, pre-booked
educational groups, disabled people with carer, the
unwaged - UB40 holders, Patrons and Friends of the
V&A and American and International Friends of the
V&A.
Walter's Gallery
Islamic Art Curator Mary Ann Shrive Simpson
Asian Art Curator Hyram (Woody)Woodward
Center Street Baltimore Md. On center Street between
Cathedral and North Charles.
Tel: 410-547-9000 888-244-8662-Tickets
Jack Haldane
Primrose Cottage, Westhorpe Road, Finningham
SUFFOLK IP14 4TW, England
(Dealers in new, second-hand & antiquarian books on
Oriental Carpets and allied subjects)
Tel: 01449-780303, Fax: 01449-780202
It is run by Jack Haldane - well known in the London rug
market.
Stephen Feldman
175 W. 93rd Street (suite 16-D), New York NY 10025, USA,
Phone: +1 - 212 - 316 - 5334, Fax: +1 - 212 - 316 - 3408,
By Appointment Only
http://www.erols.com/arbs/
arbs@erols.com
Myrna Bloom, The EAST-WEST ROOM
Bookseller to the World of Oriental Rugs
3139 Alpin Drive
Dresher Pennsylvania 19025 USA
215 657 0178 * fax 215 657 6685
http://www.myrnabloom.com
Ingemar Albertsson
Åkervägen 40, 181 41 Lidingö, Sweden
Tel & Fax +46-8-765 11 31
www.hali.nu
info@hali.nu
HALI trades in old and antique carpets, kilims and books
about textile
art.
6931 Wisconsin Ave Bethesda Md. 20815
iranbook@ix.netcom.com
10 - 6 Mon. - Sat.
Tel: 301-986-0079 Fax-301-987-8707
Dennis B.Marquand
POB 1187Culver City California 90232
Tel: 310-313-0177
dmarquand@rugbooks.com
http://www.rugbooks.com.
Paul Kreiss
2603 Talbot Rd., Baltimore, Maryland 21216
Tel: 410-367-8194 (eve & weekends )
www.RugBookShop.com
enquiries@rugbookshop.com
2320 S Street NW. Washington DC 20008-4088
Tel: 202-667-0441
James Opie
P.O.Box 430405, Portland, Oregon 97240, USA, Tel: (800)
252-8878
Tolstoy Press
Yak & Yeti Books
Gaithersburg Md.
Tel: 301-869-5860
Specializing in Books on Tibet
Teleduction, Inc.
305 A Street Wilmington, Delaware 19801 USA
Tel: 302-429-0303 - Fax:302-429-7534
http://www.teleduction.com/pages/rugs.htm
Teleduct@aol.com
Luke Powell - Photographs
230 Battell Block, Middlebury, Vermont, USA 05753
Tel/fax: 800-611-8550 Tel/fax: 802-388-3216
e-mail: luke@sover.net
Export Promotion Center of Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran, Ministry of Commerce
P. O. Box 1148 Tadjrish Teheran Iran
(98-21)-21-911 Fax (98-21)-29 28 58
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Tel: (616)454-2222 Fax (616)454-2249.
Ken Koets is an IICRC Master Cleaner/Master Restorer
Nathan Koets is a graduate of the Auserehlian Rug School
in Berthoud, CO.
The company also specializes in H2O/fire damage.
handwash@iserv.net
Ed Barsamian
102 Madison Ave. New York, N.Y.
Tel: 212-689-6273
Paul Brown
5670 Dempset Place , Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Tele: 707 322-7208
Cydyn@aol.com
Thea M. Sand
1105 Rainier Ave. S. Seattle, WA 98144
206-322-2200
emmrug@qwest.net
Hayko Oltaci
857 Lexington Avenue at 65th Street, 2nd Floor, New York,
NY 10021
Tel: 212-717-5400 Fax: 212-717-2783
http://www.hayko.com/
email@hayko.com
Herat Carpets
Shir Khosrow Paiwand
416-920-3680 Toronto Canada
I have been told that Anwar is the best restorer in
Toronto.
Eva Hoffmeister,
gaisbergster, 56 D-69115,Heidleberg,Germany RUF
06221/163217
Jahnava's Oriental Rug Restoration and
Cleaning
Jahnava Jenkins and Fayaz Ahamed
221 Pine Street, Florence, MA. 01062
Tel - (413) 585-9475
Jahnava's Oriental Rugs Restoration
& Cleaning
Warwick, NY
phone & fax: (914) 986-8522
e-mail: tinakane@mx1.pair.com
Kavanroodi, Shahriar
Address: 6110 Harleston Dr. Atlanta, Ga 30328
Phone: 404-843-2217
Email: roodi@mindspring.com
website: www.oldrugsonline.com
Mark Keshishian & Sons Oriental Carpets
Harold, James, and Mark Keshishian
4505 Stanford ST. Chevy Chase, MD 20815
(301) 654-4044
Keshad.htm
Danny and Sabrina Livai
Phone: 301-515-0476
13552 Deerwater Dr,
Germantown MD 20874-2844
When you call ask for Sabrina
McGee Keshishian
Harold, and Melissa Keshishian
15525 Edwards Ferry Road Poolesville, MD 20837
Tel: (202) 362-3303
Afshin Nejad
P.O.Box 1031 Brea, CA 92822
Tel: (310) 766-1820 Fax: (419) 781-4735
Oldcarpet.com
for rug restoration and repair.
http://www.oldcarpet.com
OPIFICIO DELLE ARTI TESSILI,
Rodolfo Kashanian, Davide Halevim and Marianna
Prevarin
via Capelli 6 - Milano
tel 02 2708 0854 fax 02 2578 5245
opificio@opificio.org
158 West 23rd St.New York NY 10011
Tel: 212-691-6948
Randy Hyde
914 SE Stephens St. Portland, OR 97214
Tel: (503) 963-8565
Specializing in hand washing and repair of rugs and
textiles.
Randy Hyde worked for Atiyeh brothers in Portland for
eight years and four years with James Opie Rugs. These
jobs exposed him to cleaning a full range of new,
antique and decorative rugs. Hyde interned with Talisman
Cleaning in Santa Cruz and has been through the ASCR and
CCINW training courses.Hyde is a founding member of the
Portland Area Rug Society.
Randy Hyde is also someone I recognize for his wise and
generous help to others in answering questions on
www.RugNotes.com
Muammer Ucar
Work Shop: Mevlana Cd. Nacifikret Sk. No:1 Konya/ Turkey.
t: 00 90 332 353 20 24
Office: Höhen Strasse 18 60385 Frankfurt am Main
Germany. t:00 49 69 405 97 21
ipekyolutr@superonline.com
Rug Renovating
532 North Grove Street, South Orange, New Jersey
07017-4909
973)675-8313
A good rug washer and cleaner.
Sanford, Emily.
Emily Sanford has over 20 years experience in
restoration, conservation and cleaning of all kinds of
flatwoven and pile rugs. She specializes in Village and
Tribal weavings, excellent color-matching and preparation
of textiles for display.
Visit www.sanford@dolphinshirt.com
Maury Bynum
215 west Ohio, 8th floor, Chicago Illinois,
Tel: (312)329-0097
maurybynum@textileconservators.com
http://www.textileconservators.com/
William A. Marshall
3415 East Kleindale Road Suite 131
Tucson AZ 85716
Tel: 520-326-9432
Bill has a large modern cleaning plant. I had a chance to
tour Bill's facility and he comes highly recommended.
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