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Himalayan Influence in Contemporary Rug Design In the 1970s American rug importers began to take note of the Himilayan rug tradition centered in Nepal. It featured very simple designs, skilled weavers and fabulous wool. American rug designers saw the situation as a blank canvas and contemporary rug design was born.

Patterns - Visual Harmony

People have created decorative patterns since time began. Perhaps a visual rendering of a pattern rhythms brings harmony to the mind like music does with sound.

 

There has been a growing trend in all-over patterns in hand-knotted rugs. 

 

All-over patterns have as few as two colors and repeat the same pattern over and over again. Perhaps our brains enjoy some solace in that and rest from the constant chore of creating patterns from reality.

 

Silver Screen Gray From the 1920s into the 1950s movies were graced with the perhaps the best black and white cinematographers that the world will ever know. They mastered every mood, every opportunity for highlighting, for low lighting, for balancing light and dark values, for conveying every emotion.

Neutral and Versatile

Designers have recently shown a preference for contemporary rug designs. One reason is the delightful selection of rugs that can be used as neutral elements, yet display incredibly interesting and entertaining patters to up-close viewers.

"They are subtle enough to to with brighter colors," said Janna Walker of JDW Interiors Inc. in Tampa. "You can modify the color scheme years from now and the rug will still work."

Fascinating Neutrals Contempory rug design is very popular right now. The style offers advantages. One of them is its ability to serve as a neutral design element while at the same time offering lots of subtle intricacies that make being in the room a delight.

Contemporary Trends We have just received a large shipment of rugs and want to show them off. Some are old favorites. Some are new to Addison/Dicus.

Design Your Own Custom Hand-knotted Rug

In spite of the availability of tens of thousands of hand-knotted rugs, designers and their clients sometimes require a custom designed rug. The reasons are varied. They might favor an area of color that is not big enough in any available rug. They might want to take advantage of a room's particular lighting by utilizing the special look and feel that silk imparts. Probably, they need to accommodate a room with an unsual shape or size.

Aria Wood Flooring

Although the area of the floor is relative small compared with the walls and the ceiling, it's a room's most important surface.

On it rests the foundation of the room; a part of our brains scans it for safety; for security; for comfort. And for pleasure.

The floor also offers us lucky humans the opportunity to enjoy a floor for its beauty. It makes us at Addison/Dicus happy that we are in the rug business AND in the custom flooring business.

India, Nepal and the Future of Fine Hand-knotted Rugs For thousands of years the peoples India and surrounding countries have produced the world's great textiles. They continue to do so today.

Install a Rug in my Photo Pictures can really make things easier. For three decades we have shown rugs in homes for designers and their clients. Now to make the interior designer's job a little easier, we will install rugs in pictures of rooms.