“No matter how rich or poor, you have rugs,” says Ali Raisdana, owner of Persian Bazaar Gallery in Wichita. The rugs are also a family’s greatest assets. “In Iran, when you go to a bank to ...

To Esmail Borhani, the Persian rugs sold by his family for decades are enduring works of art, with vibrant blues, reds and golds handwoven in traditional patterns to create one-of-a-kind showpieces.

One such treasure—a magnificent Persian rug showroom—belongs to Parisa Abdollahi, owner of Parisa Rugs and Décor in Old City, and it seems decidedly out of place along the banks of the ...

In other words, it’s just right for discreetly carrying a couple of rolled up 19th-century Oriental rugs worth a small fortune. The 60-year-old Mr. Winitz sells antique Persian carpets ...

Unless you’re in the market for a Persian rug, that is. I recently picked up the keys to my first apartment, and my mind was full of rugs— the colorful beauties that covered the marble floors ...

The rug you barely notice as you tromp from the couch to the kitchen could very well be an extremely expensive, 300-year-old objet d'art. Persian rugs are a contradiction in terms. They're ...

A Persian rug sold for a record $33 million at auction. (Associated Press) An intricate, 17th century Persian carpet went up for sale at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday. When the gavel came ...