Used Oriental carpets sell for up to thousands of dollars. A Tabriz carpet from Northwest Persia was auctioned by Sotheby's for $68,500 and it isn't the most expensive carpet sold. American Indian ...

Shopping for Persian rugs can be both exciting and intimidating due to the wide range of overwhelming options available in a number of colours, designs, and sizes. Persian rugs are highly prized ...

But the story of Oriental rugs goes back so much further — try 3000 B.C., when Nomadic tribes in Mongolia and Turkey used hair from their camels and sheep to weave carpets to keep their earthen ...

An intricate, 17th century Persian carpet went up for sale at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday. When the gavel came down, it became the world's most expensive rug ever sold at auction.

To Esmail Borhani, the Persian rugs sold by his family for decades are enduring works of art, with vibrant blues, reds and golds handwoven in traditional patterns to create one-of-a-kind showpieces.