Luxury Rugs And Carpets

Tony Sidney    by Handmade Chinese Rugs and Hall Runners

In this article the North East Rugstore review’s some of their newest collections of Exclusive Handmade Chinese Rugs and Hall Runners.

Sometimes the hardest part of choosing a rug is finding the right size for your room. Although most of our ranges are available in bespoke, made to order sizes, the delivery dates can range anywhere from 12 weeks up to 12 months depending on the type, country of origin and whether the rug is handtufted or handknotted.

The Rugstore hopes to take away some of the problems associated with buying a new rug by programming new sizes into their already successful collections

The Wool and Silk Sultan Collection

Stocks will be arriving from October of this year of new sizes in our Chinese Sultan range of rugs. These, already popular rugs, are handtufted using 95% premium quality New Zealand wool with 5% Genuine Chinese Silk Highlights.

The designs are faithful reproductions of Classic Persian Rug designs.

During October we are taking delivery of our bespoke Hall Runners, these will be programmed from 120 x 60 ( 4′ x 2′ ) upto 549 x 76 ( 18′ x 2’6 ) with six standard size runners available.

We have also ordered a selection of round rugs to match these beautiful runners and have increased our stocks of rectangle sizes up to 549×366 ( 18′ x 12′ ).

The prices will range from £99 for a 120 x 60 ( 4′ x 2′ ) upto £2795 for a 549 x 366 ( 18′ x 12′ ).

Delivery will be next working day to most UK mainland destinations at no extra cost.

The Chinese Agra Wool Rug Collection

Stocks will be arriving from October of this year of new sizes in our Chinese Agra range of rugs. These already popular rugs are handtufted using 100% premium quality New Zealand wool.

The designs are faithful reproductions of the Classic Agra rug designs, which are used to great affect in contemporary and traditional interiors.

During September we are taking delivery of our bespoke Hall Runners, these will be programmed from 120 x 60 ( 4′ x 2′ ) up to 549 x 76 ( 18′ x 2’6 ) with six standard size runners available

We have also ordered a selection of round rugs to match these beautiful runners and have increased our stocks of rectangle sizes up to 549×366 ( 18′ x 12′ ).

The prices will range from £65 for a 120 x 60 ( 4′ x 2′ ) upto £1495 for a 549 x 366 ( 18′ x 12′ ).

Delivery will be next working day to most UK mainland destinations at no extra cost.

We will be posting the new sizes on our website at http://www.rugstorene.co.uk four weeks prior to the stocks arriving in the UK, but if you would like to pre order your rug before the stocks arrive you can contact us on 0191 5492783.

The North East Rugstore is the largest stockists of quality rugs in the North East of England

New Traditional Handmade Rug Collections for Summer 2008

The Mashad Wool and Silk Rug Collection

Beautifully coloured examples of Classic Persian rug designs, this collection pays homage to a bygone age when the Artisans of Persian rug making were at their zenith.

The rugs are hand tufted in China using 95% New Zealand Wool with 5% genuine Chinese Silk The rugs are available in four standard rectangle sizes, two matching round rugs and a matching hall runner.

The collection is very competitively priced given the high quality of the materials used in each piece.

The prices start from £175 for a 150 x 90 ( 5′ x 3′ ) rug, and up to £995 for a 350 x 250 Carpet size.

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The North East Rugstore offer a large selection of rugs – from Persian Rugs to Oriental Rugs, traditional rugs to modern rugs.
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Persian Mirrors $12.99 No American reporter has more experience covering Iran or more access to the private corners of Iranian society than Elaine Sciolino. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, she has reported on the key events of the past two decades. She was aboard the airplane that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Tehran in 1979; she was there for the Iranian revolution, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war, the rise of President Mohammad Khatami, and the riots of the summer of 1999. In Persian Mirrors, Sciolino takes us into the public and private spaces of Iran — the bazaars, beauty salons, aerobics studios, courtrooms, universities, mosques, and the presidential palace — to capture the vitality of a society so often misunderstood by Americans. She demystifies a country of endless complexity where, on the streets, women swathe themselves in black and, behind high walls, they adorn themselves with makeup and jewelry; where the laws of Islam are the law of the land, and yet the government advertises as tourist attractions the ruins of the pre-Islamic imperial capital at Persepolis and the synagogue where Queen Esther is said to be buried; and where even the most austere clerics recite sensual romantic poetry, insisting that it refers to divine, and not earthly, love. Iran is also a place with a dark side, where unpredictable repression is carried out, officially and unofficially, by forces intent on maintaining power and influence. Sciolino deftly uses her travels throughout Iran and her encounters with its people to portray the country as an exciting, daring laboratory where experiments with two highly volatile chemicals — Islam and democracy — are being conducted. Like the mirror mosaics found in Iran’s royal palaces and religious shrines, there is more to the whole of the country than the fragments revealed to outsiders. Persian Mirrors captures this elusive Iran. Sciolino paints in astonishing detail and rich color the surprising inner life of this country, where a great battle is raging, not for control over territory but for the soul of the nation.

The Persian Puzzle $14.99 In his highly influential book The Threatening Storm , bestselling author Kenneth Pollack both informed and defined the national debate about Iraq. Now, in The Persian Puzzle , published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, he examines the behind-the-scenes story of the tumultuous relationship between Iran and the United States, and weighs options for the future. Here Pollack, a former CIA analyst and National Security Council official, brings his keen analysis and insider perspective to the long and ongoing clash between the United States and Iran, beginning with the fall of the shah and the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Pollack examines all the major events in U.S.-Iran relations–including the hostage crisis, the U.S. tilt toward Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iran-Contra scandal, American-Iranian military tensions in 1987 and 1988, the covert Iranian war against U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf that culminated in the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, and recent U.S.-Iran skirmishes over Afghanistan and Iraq. He explains the strategies and motives from American and Iranian perspectives and tells how each crisis colored the thinking of both countries’ leadership as they shaped and reshaped their policies over time. Pollack also describes efforts by moderates of various stripes to try to find some way past animosities to create a new dynamic in Iranian-American relations, only to find that when one side was ready for such a step, the other side fell short. With balanced tone and insight, Pollack explains how the United States and Iran reached this impasse; why this relationship is critical to regional, global, and U.S. interests; and what basic political choices are available as we deal with this important but deeply troubled country.

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Emergence of Yehud in the Persian Period $170 A long-awaited and much-needed comprehensive analysis of the material evidence concerning Persian-period Judah. Carter analyses the settlement pattern and population distribution of the province, using both excavations and archaeological surveys. His meticulous examination arrives at a rather low estimate of the population during this period, on the basis of which he examines Yehud's socio-economic setting and considers the implications of a small Yehud for some of the prominent theories concerning the province in the Persian-period.

New Persian Cooking $28 The subtleties of Persian cuisine and their exciting mix of flavours are totally distinct from other styles of cooking and make it one of the great cuisines of the world. The traditional emphasis on the use of fresh and seasonal ingredients and the importance of a complementary mix of herbs, vegetables, meat, fish, fruit and spices, accords well with the modern desire for healthy eating and a balanced diet. This highly-illustrated cookbook offers an enticing introduction to traditional Persian cuisine through recipes that are accessible to the non-professional cook and are based on ingredients that are readily available in the West. As a medical doctor aware of today's health concerns, Jila Dana-Haeri has adapted traditional Persian recipes for today's more health-conscious readers and cooks. Using ingredients that are readily available to create dishes that are both healthy and nutritious, the authors demonstrate that Persian food can be made easily anywhere in the world. Featuring beautiful photographs by award-winning food photographer Jason Lowe, this book will be essential for anyone interested in sampling Persian cuisine and expanding their cultural horizons.

Birth of the Persian Empire $94 Of the great ancient civilizations, that of Persia is the least known and the most enigmatic. This book explores the formation of the first Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Persians. It brings together a multi-disciplinary view of ancient Iran in the first millennium BC and concentrates on the art, archaeology, history and religion of a geographical area far beyond the present borders of modern Iran in the period beginning just before the formation of the Persian empire in the middle of the 6th century up to its collapse following conquest by Alexander the Great in the late 4th century BC. Eminent scholars here give a critical approach to some of the traditional interpretations and discuss topics which help the reader towards a better understanding of the formation of the Persian empire. This is the first volume in the "Idea of Iran" series which will be a four-volume collection encompassing the history of that country.