oriental rug

He helped found the literary quarterly The Paris Review with other Ivy Leaguers while bopping around Paris in the 1950s, and he wrote books on eccentric topics aside from names, like the cultural histories of oranges and Oriental rug symbols.

Close to Ganges is Cheyenne Goh’s Tweed and Bananas workshop, where the crafter works in a garage decorated with an Oriental rug and vintage suitcases to “upcycle” fabric scraps, old kilts, tweed jackets and most anything people drop at her door.

The very fancy oriental rug covering the wooden floor and the slate flagstones of the hearth only served to make the room seem even more imposing.

The image borrows from the palette of the eighteenth-century British painter George Stubbs, the “colors of empire” as Biswas called them: The yellow and white stripes of the couch, the faded oxblood red of the “oriental” rug, against placid sea-foam green walls.

“It’s one of the better machine-made rugs. Even after 30 to 40 years, they hold up really well,” said Robert Gordon Shropshire of Scotty’s Carpet and Oriental Rug Service, which specializes in cleaning and repairing Karastan rugs.