09/22/2026
The adventures these rugs take me on are everything that’s fun about what I do.
I found this rug through an older couple who were parting with it after moving from Northern California to Southern California. It had been in their family for generations, but in their new home, there simply wasn’t a room where it fit anymore.
So I drove a couple of hours down to Oceanside, near San Diego, to meet them and hear its story.
The rug once lived in her grandmother’s home in Germany, in a town near Hannover. She grew up with this rug, seeing it every summer when she visited her grandmother. 🤍
Her grandmother had inherited it in a pretty remarkable way. She worked as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman, and when the woman passed away, she left this antique Persian rug to her. When her grandmother later died, the rug went to her son, and when he passed, it came to the woman I was now standing with in Oceanside. 🌊
Rugs…carry us through time.
She asked me what her rug was, and I started explaining that it was an antique Persian Mahal, roughly 100 years old, woven in the village region of Mahal. 🧶
Her husband, a classic-car lover, suddenly said, “Wait a minute.”
He walked over and pulled the cover off this incredible 1937 classic Buick, complete with whitewall tires and red wheels. And then came another story: Bette Davis, Bob Hope and Marie Osmond had all been in this car. 🚙
He had eyed this car for a while and chased it down to acquire it, and this is something I know all too well, as I hunt down old rugs.
So there we were in their driveway, an antique Persian rug beside a 1937 automobile, bonding over art, history and the things people choose to preserve.
I rolled up the rug, I hugged them goodbye, and drove home with another little piece of someone’s family history.
And somehow, after all those generations, all those homes, Germany to California and nearly a century of life, this Mahal is still in superb condition.
I’m so elated this wonderful lady chose me as the rug’s next caretaker, as I know others were after it. It’s stunning with a superb and unusual color ground I can’t even make out.
💙Now in the collection💙
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