It’s been a busy weekend with lots of running around, parties, and fun. Counting down the days until Josh gets home and can share in all the “fun.” Last night was my second rug flop. This is before it started when they were bringing all the carpets from the van into the house. This was just the first pile.
The guy “flops” them out on the floor in front of everyone. The top 2 are 100% wool and cost around $1500 each. It sounds like it’s crazy expensive, but they would cost way more than that back in the states. And when you think that it took someone months or years to hand knot every little bit of it (the wool ones were something like 200 to 500 knots per square inch) the price sounds much more reasonable.
This is the end of a runner that I really liked. You don’t see many wool carpets with that much variation in color. His starting price was $1000 and I know I could have gotten it for a bit less than that, but I’m not coughing up that much money for something that my kids are going to wipe their feet on. Not yet anyway. Maybe before we leave the island. Caleb really liked this one and kept saying, “Are we getting the running one?” And you know that’s exactly what he would want to do on my very expensive piece of floor art.
This one was over $2000 because it’s silk on silk. Really beautiful. It had something like 800 knots per square inch.
I almost went home with this silk one (and it was more amazing in real life — it even changes colors depending on which way you view it), but in the end couldn’t spend $1500. Check back in a few months after I’ve been to a few more rug flops and $1500 starts sounding like a bargain.
It was a late night. 11pm and she was done.