Rug Junky

I had a weak moment this morning and I bought another rug. Oops. Clearly I am going to need to do some pretty extreme levels of selling stuff, or maybe, think about some sort of employment. LOL

I'm a big fan of Persian Carpet's clearance rug page and I drop by too frequently. I was seriously tempted by their Tulip rug last month, but I decided there was too much green and not enough yellow. (It has since sold out.)

They've obviously been testing some new designs because they've had quite a few prototypes lately. I was tempted by this one too. (Also sold now.)

Today when I checked in they had another one-of-a-kind hand-knotted prototype rug. This design appears to be a close cousin to William Morris' "The Rose" rug design from 1897; they call it the "Essex." I've not seen this design with a green border before. I'll have to go dig thru my William Morris books and see if I can find this exact rug design.

I bought this Persian Carpet's Essex Prototype.

It's a 10x14 though, so it's going to end up in the living room which means I'll be shuffling the new Fintona rug, into the front library area. While the rug already in there is hand-knotted, the color doesn't go well with our color scheme.

The new Fintona rug.

The rug we'll now be selling off

At some point I'll be in the market for a rug for the dining room, but I better stop now. Jeff only has so much patience for shuffling furniture/rugs and I'm already pushing my luck.