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Collosal William Morris 'Clouds' carpet - Conservation

January 08, 2022

Collosal William Morris 'Clouds' carpet - Conservation

 Indeed a very great privilege for the request to oversee the well being and active curation of what is probably the largest William Morris carpet in extent. The management of a carpet of an approx 75 sq. mt which weighs in at an excess of 600 kilos is a considerable logistical undertaking requiring a team eight to  just move it to another location.

The carpet was originally woven at William Morris & Co's Mersham Abbey workshop in the second half of the 1880s for the Wyndham family at Clouds House designed by Philip Webb who also did the Red House for William Morris himself. In the 1920s the Wyndham family had a house dispersal sale and the present owners grandfather ( a contemporary and friend of Morris ) purchased the carpet for the Gloucestershire house where it has remained ever since.

Having proposed that the carpet be fully conserved in three phases thus far have achieved the first stage in 2021 and 2022 with  a complete washing offsite and conservation. Presentaly in 2023 additional conservation and the replacement of some old restorationr is underway toward the carpet being returned to Gloucestershire in the Autumn.



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Seasonal insect control
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May 05, 2025

To our amazement apparently the Natural History Museum offer a commercial pest control service which includes an ‘ Anoxic ‘ treatment. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/services/facilities/quarantine.html Also reliable products for domestic use may be purchased from the company Histrionics https://historyonics.com/ whose principal we understand comes from an academic science background. Also there is a new company ANOXART who specialise in anoxic insect irradiation whose apararatus for their argon method is pictured here.  Also as per in a previous blog we offer free freezing treatment for my own customers https://www.orient-rug.com/blogs/news/clinical-moth-treatment-a-free-service-to-customerts

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Film work and NDA
Film work and NDA

April 30, 2025

Having always engaged in film work and now with increased demands connected to the film industry be it with costume or set design in film feature film, terrestrial, network material and or for scale reproduction purposes as seen here . W are now more  frequently obliged to follow ( Non Disclosure Agreements ) or NDAs as the pervasive acronym goes which hinders sharing details of such activities. This is not confined to just film work but increasingly to non-film contract work for important engagements onsite at home and abroad. Regrettably we are now often constrained in our wish to publicise interesting work which we would otherwise liked to have shared.

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Acquisition of Oxianna Books remaining stock
Acquisition of Oxianna Books remaining stock

October 18, 2024

It is with great pleasure as of October 2024 we can announce the acquisition of the remaining stock of Oxianna Books originally formed at Long Ditton Surrey UK in 1995 by Ed and Maggie Stott.
That together with our existing stock of out of print books, maps and literature some of which acquired along the way from Abingdon Books, The Raymond Benardout Library and that of the late Simon Crosby now makes Clive Rogers Oriental Rugs the likely leading supplier of out of print literature. In the field of Oriental Rug and Carpet studies 
During the course of 2024 and 2025 we will roll out the titles available via the link.
A portion will not be offered but be held back to augment the working library of our business which is freely available upon appointment and students and researchers.

https://www.orient-rug.com/collections/books

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