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Floor Coverings
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Choosing Floor Coverings for Your Home 
 Overviews of various types of flooring for home use. Provides historical background, installation tips, and advantage and disadvantages for flooring made of bamboo, cork, engineered hardwood, hardwood, laminate, linoleum, and vinyl. From a site that provides information to homeowners. http://www.demesne.info/Improve-Your-Home/Floor-Coverings/ Topics: Home & Housing Last updated Mar 6, 2006 Flowers Underfoot
An online companion to a museum exhibit about Indian carpets of the Mughal Era. Find historical background, construction, design, and use. Includes beautiful images, plus a glossary and a bibliography. Offers suggested classroom activities. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Flowers/HTM/ind_fs.htm Topics: Home & Housing, Home & Housing Last updated Jul 14, 2004 Jacobsen Oriental Rugs
On this website an America Oriental rug dealer shares knowledge about rugs and carpets. "Visit ... [the] Guide to Oriental Rugs for information about rug weaving, rug styles and price ranges, as well as photos of rug weaving and buying, and tips on rug care and cleaning." Includes material about knots and knot density, dyes, rug and loom terminology, and more. Also provides maps, diagrams, and photos. http://www.jacobsenrugs.com Topics: Crafts, Home & Housing Last updated Jul 17, 2006 RugMark Foundation: Purchase a Rug
Consumer education materials for choosing rugs that are made without illegal child labor. Features a rug buying guide with expert interviews, features to look for in a rug, sample locations of RugMark rugs (including museums and hotels), and a FAQ. Also includes a retailer look-up feature, a tool to verify your RugMark rug, and details about the RugMark Foundation, an organization dedicated to "ending child labor in the handmade carpet industry in South Asia." http://www.rugmark.org/purchase.php Topics: Consumer Research & Advocacy, Home & Housing, Labor Last updated Oct 2, 2006 TurkoTek: Rugs and Tribal Weavings
This noncommercial site focuses on textiles and tribal weavings from the Caucasus and Central Asia. It hosts a virtual salon in which chosen topics are discussed and later archived. Also included are weaving maps for Turkoman and Caucasian groups, as well as attribution guides that describe the main characteristics of the featured weaving groups including Chodor, Salor, Tekke, and Yomut. This site also contains a collection of articles and reviews and hosts a virtual "show and tell" where weaving pictures may be displayed and discussed. A large links collection features educational, discussion, and commercial sites devoted to rugs. http://www.turkotek.com/ Topics: Home & Housing, Home & Housing Last updated Jul 14, 2004 |
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