Article: Creativity Tufted and Stuffed; Sara Schneidman's artwork jumped off the paper onto pillows and rugs

Article: Something about rugs
The Press;  June 10, 2003 ;     301 words ...There is definitely something about rugs. Rugs are warm. Rugs are comfortable. Rugs are like paintings on the floor. They can be hung on the walls and moved around the house for a change of scenery. If you find there is not enough...or the cat have got there first, you can always buy another, ...

Article: Paintings owned by Saddam among No. Haven tag sale items?
New Haven Register;  May 17, 2009 ;     415 words ......Robert Nappe offered a collection of paintings once owned by Saddam Hussein. It's not...But for whatever reason, none of the paintings were sold. Perhaps they were fake? One...training Iraq police officers. He bought the paintings when he was in Iraq from February 2004...

Article: Valued 16th century paintings to be returned
AP Online;  May 14, 1998 ;     302 words ......AP) _ Seven miniature 16th-century paintings traveled from a German nobleman's...Thursday will mark the return of the paintings to the University of Kassel Library in Germany. Four of the seven paintings - all ripped from a German nobleman...

Article: SOFT AND MUTED SHADE WIN OVER HIGH BIDDERS AT SOTHEBY'S AUCTION.(rugs)
HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network;  October 14, 2002 ;     518 words ...NEW YORK-When it comes to the color of rugs, the rich are not so different from you and me. Many of the antique rugs sold for thousands of dollars at a Sotheby...Doris Leslie Blau, a dealer in antique rugs, offered 215 rugs dating from the 16th...

Article: Rugs and Rug Making
Canadian Encyclopedia;      684 words ......and passed from one generation to the next, old hooked rugs are usually orphans whose family history has been lost...However, one famous rug hooker was Emily CARR , who made rugs to supplement the income she earned from her boarding house. Many rugs designed by the artist Georges-douard Tremblay can be ...

Article: MAGIC CARPET RIDE: Demystifying Oriental rugs
Boise Weekly;  June 18, 2002 ;     687 words ......different dye lots. For religious reasons traditional tribal rugs do not depict animals or birds because only Allah can create animals. These rugs also have "hidden flaws" because, according to Islam, only...proud of the rug. Tanveer Abassi, owner of Abassi Persian Rugs, says tribal rugs are not ...

Article: VIPs Get the Pick Of the Paintings Stored for Museum
The Washington Post;  March 29, 1994 ;     688 words ......furniture's all right, but what about the paintings? "Portrait of a Moth-Eaten Bureaucrat...sons examining rack upon rack of stored paintings from the Federal Arts Project of the...will get to draw inspiration from the paintings for two years while he mulls worker retraining...

Article: Famous works by Flemish artist immortalised as rugs
The Press;  August 13, 1996 ;     109 words ......Gogh's greatest paintings have been immortalised in the form of rugs made from New Zealand...hand-crafted carpets and rugs made by Artists...Van Gogh's famous paintings. Some, such as...reproduced the paintings in carpets and rugs,'' says Nora So...

Article: COLLECTOR'S CORNER: A magic carpet ride to riches; With antique rugs at bargain prices, now could be the time to buy, says Gwyn Jones.(Business)
The Independent (London, England);  November 26, 2005 ;     553 words ......consider them in the same ways a paintings, says Iain Stewart of the specialist...auctioneers Rippon Boswell. 'Rugs are closer to an art form and...exceptional traditional Persian rugs typically around six feet by...century are incredibly good value. Rugs that cost pounds 1,000 to pounds...

Article: Housewives were hooked on rag rugs
Chicago Sun-Times;  May 2, 1986 ;     321 words ......available to housewives in the 1850s. The interest in rag rugs continued through the 19th century. The later rugs often were designed by the makers and are classified as examples of folk art. Rugs picturing animals, houses, ships and even dancing couples were made to be used on the floor. These ...

Article: Rugs for the Floor Plus Advice on Decor
The Washington Post;  October 14, 1999 ;     636 words ......old Howard County shop is packed with stuff. There are rugs, of course, laid upon each other in layers underfoot and...wish I could live here,' " says Meilman, who considers Rugs to Riches more of a portfolio of her design style than...she tries to keep a good selection of mostly hand- tied rugs on hand, ...

Article: Collection of prayer rugs on display in Huntington
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  May 29, 2005 ;     428 words ......Because of their small size and vibrant colors, prayer rugs have become prized as collectibles. Many of the Fitzpatrick rugs traveled the country in 1992 and 1993, along with rugs from Drs. Joseph B. and Omayma Touma, as part of the touring exhibit "Gardens of Paradise: Oriental Prayer Rugs." Many ...

Article: Museum weaves vivid exhibit of Islamic rugs.(Arts)(Art)
The Washington Times;  February 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......is like seeing the finest paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Peter...represent a pinnacle. The 36 rugs gathered for Oriental Carpet...was tenacious in examining rugs for their structures and physical...by viewing and touching the rugs. Textiles are a tactile art...master Lorenzo Lotto, these ...

Article: A bug for rugs: Salem man is hooked
The Boston Globe;  May 17, 1998 ;     700+ words ......retired five years ago. He has been hand-knotting and hooking rugs for more than 20 years. In the first floor of his modest home on a quiet side street, there are rugs on walls and floors, and if he thought they might look good there, he'd have rugs on the ceilings, too. "I don't sell them. I give them ...