Persian Rug Dealers
These are some of the largest and popular Persian rug dealers,
online galleries and companies available in the United States.
Boston Galleries, Inc. (bostongalleries.com): Boston Galleries,
Inc. is a 25 year old licensed bonded auction house offering
Persian rugs and handmade rugs across the United States.
Headquarters is located in Bethesda, Maryland. They also provide
services such as Appraisal, Cleaning and Spot-removal.
Herat Tribal Weaving (herat.com): Herat Ltd. specializes mainly
in Baluch, Afshar and South Persian rugs and carpets. Their
website has an Online Catalog that features a selection of their
current inventory. The company, located in Miami, Florida, is
owned by Edward Koch whose initial interests in Baluch and the
tribal weavings of South Persia (especially those of the
Afshari) extended to Turkish village rugs and some of the more
primitive weavings of non-Turkmen, Central Asians.
Olcarpet.com: According to the website, it provides only "Real
Persian Rugs & Carpets" - those made in Iran and not in other
major Oriental rug making countries such as India, China, Turkey
or Pakistan. Founded in 1877, the business originated in the
town of Tabriz, northwest of Iran, is located in Brea,
California, and has attended many antique shows and rugs
exhibitions all around the United States.
Persian Gallery Co., Inc. (persiangalleryny.com): Founded in
1971 by the Hakim brothers in New York, Persian Gallery Co.,
Inc. is a wholesale dealer of antique and semi-antique oriental
carpets and period tapestries, supplying carpet retailers and
interior designers throughout the United States.
S&H Rugs (shrugs.com): S&H has a huge collection ranging from
Persian Antique & Semi-Antique to Fine New Oriental Rugs, which
includes Vegetable Dye rugs, Silk, formal and informal. The rug
business was started in 1990 and continue to import rugs from
Persia, Pakistan, China and India ever since. He Company is
located in New Jersey.
Sobco International Ltd. (sobcoweb.com): Sobco is an
award-winning importer and manufacturer of handmade rugs and
flat weaves with more than 50 years of experience in the Persian
carpet trade, serving customers in the U.S., Europe and in
various different countries around the world. Their headquarters
is located in West Los Angeles, California.
Thomas Cole Antique rugs and textiles (tcoletribalrugs.com):
This private rug dealer specializes in Turkmen, Uzbek, Kirghiz,
Baluch and Persian tribal (oriental) rugs, bagfaces and weavings
as well as Central Asian silk embroidery and textile art. The
website provides images of an eclectic collection assembled by
the owner of the business, Thomas Cole.
Tschebull Antique Carpets (tschebullantiquecarpets.com): Deals
in rugs such as Pre World War One Iranian "city" dozars, 19th
century kelleh format rugs from Iranian Kurdistan and Kirman
dozar rugs. Tschebull Antique Carpets was founded in 1982, and
is located in the center of Darien, Connecticut.
1001persianrugs.com: is an online seller that has one of the
largest collections of Persian rugs, ranging from Oversize Rugs,
Large Rug, Room Size Rugs, Small Rugs, Runners, Antique Rugs to
Silk Rugs. Their collection is listed by type in alphabetical
order. Headquarters is located in Kew gardens, New York.