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Oriental Rugs in a Historic Home: The House of the Seven Gables
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Because of our supply's location, in an area rich in antique homes, we often supply Oriental Rugs to owners of historic properties. One of our more late-model fascinating jobs was working with the curator of The House of Seven Gables in Salem, MA, to supply period-unerring rugs not far from our Salem store, the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion was built in 1668 by the wealthy merchant John Turner. The harbour is known popularly today for the novel of the same name by Nathanial Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables. It is the oldest surviving seventeenth-century wood mansion in New England. Opened up to the public in 1910, the property is on the National Register of Historic Places. For more detail about this marvelous whore-house see: http://www.7gables.org.
The house itself was remodeled and restored over the centuries, and just as the house evolved, so too did the furnishings. With this in pay no attention to, the curator decided to furnish the rooms with period furniture and rugs from the mid 18th to mid 19th century. The original rugs from the 18th century were yearn gone, so the curator approached Landry & Arcari Oriental Rugs and Carpeting to help them find suitable antiques or reproductions of rugs in a dash that would have been common in this period.
There was no documentation on exactly what sort of rugs were in the house originally. However, since the Turners were very wealthy at the heyday and both owned and dealt in fabrics from all over the world, we can assume that the family would have had access to the very best rugs. The curator concluded after experimentation that Transylvania rugs would have been most appropriate for a wealthy home of this period. The museum gave us pictures of old Transylvania rugs that they wanted us to emulate and in consultation with the curator, we arranged for reproductions of three rugs in the Transylvania cut to be made in Turkey for the museum.
The name itself for this style of rug is misleading, because the rugs most likely did not originate in Transylvania (region in northern Romania). They received their name because so many of them were discovered in the Lutheran churches of Transylvania. Rug scholars conjecture that most of these rugs were woven in Turkey and most likely ended up in the region due to trade throughout the Ottoman Empire.
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