“Funny Writing”

It wasn’t that long ago that rug experts acknowledged that the “funny writing” on some oriental rugs was Armenian. However, most rug experts maintained that those rugs were not made by Armenians but were commissioned pieces.

Now for the first time, the Armenian Rugs Society (Est. 1980) has been invited by the ICOC International Conference on Oriental Rugs to Vienna, Austria. (Sep 15-21, 2014).  The exhibit titled “Armenian Rugs and Carpets” is a big change from the previous labeling of “Anatolian or Caucasian” for our work.

Thanks to the ARS and to two very important independent scholars for taking the …