History
Our History
Since 1986 Cohen&son Oriental Rugs provided invaluable services to a customer base throughout the New England region from his location. In May of 2005, the employees purchased the business from its previous owners in order to continue and expand upon the tradition of excellence that we have offered to our clients for years. Now, as new owners, we present you with our fine line of oriental rugs.
The History of Oriental Rugs
That art or rug making goes back to the beginning of human civilization. It has never been established when knotted rugs were first made. A threshold rug represented in a stone carving (in the Louvre Museum, Paris) show a pattern that has survived to the present time. The old testament (Exodus, XXXVI, 8019, 35,37) regarded carpets as precious artifacts in the building of Solomon's Temple. Also in the Apis status in the Louvre, the God is depicted in full decoration, which includes a carpet on his back.
Although it is unknown when rugs became a form of art, the discovery of the Pazyrk carpet, the oldest know rug was that of the Sassanid Dynasty, or the "Spring of Shosroes.: That legendary carpet was used by Khosroe I (A.D. 531-579), the King of Persia, in winter to remind him of a spring time garden in bloom.
Since 1986 Cohen&son Oriental Rugs provided invaluable services to a customer base throughout the New England region from his location. In May of 2005, the employees purchased the business from its previous owners in order to continue and expand upon the tradition of excellence that we have offered to our clients for years. Now, as new owners, we present you with our fine line of oriental rugs.
The History of Oriental Rugs
That art or rug making goes back to the beginning of human civilization. It has never been established when knotted rugs were first made. A threshold rug represented in a stone carving (in the Louvre Museum, Paris) show a pattern that has survived to the present time. The old testament (Exodus, XXXVI, 8019, 35,37) regarded carpets as precious artifacts in the building of Solomon's Temple. Also in the Apis status in the Louvre, the God is depicted in full decoration, which includes a carpet on his back.
Although it is unknown when rugs became a form of art, the discovery of the Pazyrk carpet, the oldest know rug was that of the Sassanid Dynasty, or the "Spring of Shosroes.: That legendary carpet was used by Khosroe I (A.D. 531-579), the King of Persia, in winter to remind him of a spring time garden in bloom.