Don't let it sit damp: Your oriental rug must be bone-dry before it's brought back inside. Letting a still-damp rug inside the home can lead to molding and mildewing.

Gut check: Rug dealers know you can’t buy a rug without seeing it in your home, and they will happily load it in your car. Put it down, see if it works and, most important, make sure you love it.

Q: At a moving sale a few years back, I bought a large Oriental rug that's of high quality but has some faded areas. I wanted to experiment with having a large rug before making a major investment ...

It sold the so-called Oriental rug to America’s middle class. But after nearly a century, the Karastan factory is shutting down. Call of the carpet: the original 717 shows its lush colors.Credit ...

He is a thirty-something, U.S. born, third-generation rug dealer who grew up among the stacks of rugs at his family’s rug store at Persian Rug Gallery, 159 E. Silver Spring Drive in Whitefish Bay.

David Martinous in Martinous Oriental Rugs' showroom, 1521 Macon Drive in Little Rock. His grandfather emigrated from Lebanon to Springfield, Mo., in 1865 and opened a mercantile there.

Buying an Oriental rug, such as the hand-knotted Turkish Usak rug pictured here, can seem like a mysterious process, but it becomes less so when you know how these rugs are priced and what to look ...

March 2, 2012 / 9:26 AM CST / CBS Texas Oriental rugs create an atmosphere of upscale beauty, artistry and elegance in your home that can't be achieved with the average rug.

A leaf-patterned blue rug from the courtly heyday of 17th-century Iran sold at Christie's this spring for $9.6 million, 20 times its asking price—and the highest price ever paid for a rug ...

March 2, 2012 / 10:31 AM EST / CBS Pittsburgh Oriental rugs create an atmosphere of upscale beauty, artistry and elegance in your home that can't be achieved with the average rug.