April 21, 2024
Temple Newsam is a Tudor-Jacobean house in West Yorkshire with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. The house is one of Leeds Museums and Galleries sites. In 1920s, the entire house contents were sold off and very recently some parts of the Wilton stair carpeting from 1870s has been returned back to the house. However, some 10 metres is missing and we are privilaged at being asked to making faithful handmade replicas in Turkey.
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.