Studio Abrash's Luxor collection is a harmonious blend of ancient Egyptian artistry and modern design, inspired by iconic ...

Discovering the driver was from Iran, where he had worked in the rug trade,I showed him a picture of a runner in my entryway. “Made in India,” he said, “in the Mamluk tradition, very common.” ...

including the entryway rug, as the Uber drive had said, in the Mamluk tradition. By this point, Mann could have told me that Santa’s elves wove these rugs during their offseason in the North Pole.

Most of Woven Legends’ designs, though, are based on patterns Jevremovic finds in old rugs. The kaleidoscopic patterns of the newest line, the Sardis, was inspired by a 15th-century Mamluk rug ...

Only in recent years have scholars managed to trace their origins - to Cairo, under the reign of the Mamluk Sultan Qaitbay (1468–1496), a great patron of the arts. “When carpet studies began ...