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October 18, 2024
We take great pleasure in announcing as of October 2024 we have acquired the remaining stock of Ed and Maggie Stott's Oxianna Books originally of Long Ditton Surrey.
That together with our existing stock of out of print books, maps and literature some of which was acquired along the way from Abingdon Books, The Raymond Benardout Library and that of the late Simon Crosby now makes us the likely leading supplier of out of print books and literature in the field of Oriental Rug and Carpet studies in the English language.
During the course of 2024 and 2025 the titles will be gradually rolled out the titles available via the link .
A portion of this material 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.
Clive Rogers Oriental Rugs ( Books )
https://www.orient-rug.com/collections/books
February 25, 2026
Following a discovery of a pair of 1920s Donegal kneeler runners at the local town parish church of St. Laurences in September 2024 work was commissioned to rejuvenate the carpet and brassware on the steps leading leading from the Nave to the Chancel. The task was tricky as the brassware and fittings were all in a poor state and the carpet was starting to unravel and therefore needed binding not to mention fixings into marble steps !. The result was splendid and fully deserving of the not inconsiderable effort for what might otherwise have appeared a straightforward task.
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
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.