Journal

In the run up to the Spring season in order to safeguard and guarantee stock from moth and insect infestation a laboratory quality freezer has been installed to run at -45c.  Treatments to existing customer collections are offered free of charge provided all delivery arrangements are handled by interested parties.

It is a very great privilege to be requested to assist in the well being and active curation of what is probably the largest William Morris carpet in extent.

Recently we have been selected with the care of a highly important 20th century collection of modernist carpets. In the course of our investigative work

The Handel and Hendrix Museum is a living museum in Brook Street Mayfair London an address that both musicians shared albeit 220 years apart . It is a little known fact the Jimi Hendrix was a rug collector

We are delighted to have been invited to share additional space for our oversized carpets by our good friends at Lewis & Wood just down the road in Woodchester Stroud. Showing grand and gigantic carpets had become challenging at our Fomeside Stroud

The Honourable East India Company's (HEIC) principal warehouse in the City of London was the Cutler Street complex, constructed in the late 18th century just outside the walls of the medieval city.

By the late Jack Haldane ( Izmidlian ) - In my time at the PLA (from 1948 onwards) the customs seals were made, as I remember it, of metal thin enough to be malleable, shaped roughly like the figure 8 except in the middle.

Supplying carpets to decorate a large pop-up tent at a Mayfair venue, in preparation for bars and restaurants reopening outdoors with the easing of UK lockdown restrictions on 12th April 2021.

 

Hand-knotted Carpets are no longer made in the British Isles, the last in England being the Royal Wilton Carpet Company, closed 1960, and Donegal Carpets Ltd Killybegs Co.Donegal Eire which closed in 1987.