The Handel and Hendrix House is a living museum in Brook Street, Mayfair London an address that both musicians shared albeit 200 years apart. It is a little known fact the Jimi Hendrix was a rug collector as evidenced in the photos of the time. Since the recreation of Hendix's old flat at the address about 6 years ago we have worked alongside the museum in the role of curator / donor. Finding antique rugs is difficult enough but the task of locating rugs from the late 1960s or early 1970s is certainly more challenging than one might imagine. In the B/W photo can be seen an Ardebil rug in the Shirvan / Azerbaijan manner of the period a duplicate of which has been searched for since the Hendrix room opened so far without success. In August 2021 we managed to procure on behalf of the Museum a very similar Caucasian rug circa 1970 in as new condition as seen centre in the colour photo. The search continues.....
Photos copyright #9966 Handel Hendrix House © Barrie Wentzell / Snap Galleries
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
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.
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.
