Great rug!!!!! WOW I'm a stone sucker for Persian rugs, I like them almost as much as cues, I only own 2, one is a good one made of silk its a $3,000 entry level rug-a prayer rug its called, my other rug is under my snooker table and was under my GC4 for years its a machine made wool rug with silk accents its called a fish hook tabriz(or something like that) I paid $10,500 for it, its like a McDermott, a good quality production model, I have seen the exact same rug in a few other stores in different sizes for sale. I paid around $91/SqFt as I remember(its been a long time), The cheapest I seen it for sale for was over $125/sqft so I did ok. It shows zero wear and has been walked on lots, it was on top of hard wood floors, now its on stone with no padding. It sure is pretty but not near the quality of the one in the pics above. I dont know about them very much other than when your a white boy and you walk into a Persian rug store in Beverly Hills your gonna get way the worst of it.
I have seen some that were 300 years old built for castles 35'X20' or bigger. The hand built ones can take several people working on it at the same time many years to complete there are millions on knots in them. I saw one once that was $500,000. I have seen some the size of mine thats under my snooker table for $75,000. The Fake chinese ones are still pretty strong-thats what my $10,000 is.
I could really get into rugs as much as cues but I dont speak Farsi (Persian) number one, number 2 I cant afford them. One day about 6 years ago when I was holding big $$$, I didnt have a spot to put them I went to a rug store next to my friends car dealership. They started busting out all the rugs, there was one for $175,000 that was the nicest looking thing I ever saw in my life, it was new. They told me and I knew this if it was 100 years old it would be worth much more $$$. By the time I was done looking at all the rugs I could have went for about $700,000 or more. I loved so many of them. Now I have the house and cant afford the rugs, LOL. What are you gonna do??? They are really spectular, at the Rug stores they hide the good stuff in the back, kinda like some cue dealers who have store fronts do, they dont bring out the real cues unless a real buyer is there. Best Billiards Rick Langsbury did it like that, back in So Cal years ago.
They are much like cues, who made them had a huge impact on the price, when they were made, and the style. Like a Gus Box Cue is a very rare cue or a Barbell or 6 pt all those bring out the $$$, where as a 4pt player costs 80% less. Rugs meaning the Hobie/business is much more complex than cues but similar in many ways. I'm attracted to complex colored things cues and rugs fit that for me, and they are useable. Art that hangs on a wall dosent do it much for me, I like the feel of rugs too.
Anyways back to cues and yes thats a beatiful collection of cues.
Sorry to go off topic but I bet dollars to doughnuts that if alot of cue enthusistasts were exposed to rugs they would enjoy them too as they go hand in hand. In America NYC and more so Los Angeles are about the only 2 citys with big time rug dealers. It was a fluke i discovered them. I wonder if there is a rug trade show?
