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Journal

Clinical moth treatment - a free service to customers.

March 12, 2022

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.

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Enormous William Morris 'Clouds' carpet

January 08, 2022

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.

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Curating Modernist carpet collection

December 12, 2021

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

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New (old) rug for Hendrix Museum

August 16, 2021

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

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Expansion with Lewis & Wood

August 14, 2021

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

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Introduction - Early history and development of the P.L.A. Bonded carpet warehouse

June 26, 2021

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.

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Interpretation of carpet custom and import labels at Port of London Authority warehouse

June 26, 2021

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.

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Installing Rugs for a West End Pop-up

April 09, 2021

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.

 

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Britannia and Her Carpets

April 08, 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.

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Clive Rogers

Studio 6, First Floor
Fromeside, Stroud
Gloucestershire GL5 3JX

+44(0)1453 751400
stroud@orient-rug.com


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