DecorumRugs

Decorum Rugs & Antiques is a small business based in southeastern Michigan operating out of Grosse Pointe Park. Set up an appointment to see our rugs in person or view our rugs on the Etsy platform, our Website (Decorumrugsandantiques.com), or Instagram (Decorumrugs) before they hit the sites.

Decorum was founded by mother and daughter team, Sandra and Rachel, in 2015. During Sandra's college years, he accompanied her family to Iran when her father accepted a 1+ year, teaching Fulbright grant at Teheran University. Sandra attended the University and taught at a Persian Armenian kindergarten where she learned to speak decent Farsi and was smitten with a huge appreciation of everything Persian. Since then she has been an avid collector of handmade rugs and now has turned her passion in to a business with the help of her daughter.

While furnishing their own homes, and collecting rugs for many years, Sandra and Rachel realized there was not a marketplace for an everyday buyer to make an informed purchase at an affordable price. Often consumers would find an affordable rug at an estate sale or flea market, but there was very little or no information about it available, and so, the consumer had no idea of the value or authenticity. The idea of buying an authentic Persian, oriental, or tribal rug as an uninformed consumer is a gamble – you can hit the jackpot or, most likely, overpay, or pay for a rug that turns out to be something other than what you thought.

The alternative is to purchase from an auction, a retail dealer, or a private individual. In any of these cases there is a risk that you may pay more than your rug is worth. Often times customers do not understand that a rug purchased for the retail price is usually only resalable for half the price paid if you can find a market for your item. Auction rugs need to be authenticated for design versus origin, quality of wool, silk or cotton used, number of repairs, and in some cases dying touch ups. CAVEAT EMPTOR. Thus Decorum Rugs was born. Rachel has left the business and her father has stepped in to take her place, It is truly a family business as her brother Chris has also stepped up to support many of the IT and web functions.

Decorum Rugs & Antiques is here to fill the gaps between the flea market, auction, and the retailer. We provide our customers with authentic handmade rugs at affordable prices while educating you about your purchase. Each rug will come with a RUG DNA – a provenance that tells you the region, age, retail value, and additional details of your purchase so that you know what you are buying. We are now offering free shipping to the continental USA with shipping fees for other areas. We strive to keep so may not have much of a margin to reduce the prices further. But we will work with you to keep the cost of each rug low, As our customer you will pay the lowest price for the rug based on your location.

All of our rugs are unique, one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted or flat weave works of art with different levels of wear and condition. These rugs have origins that range from Turkey, Iran (Persian), Azerbaijan, Armenian, Kurdish,the Russian Caucasus, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, India, and China. We only sell hand-knotted or hand-woven rugs. We do not sell machine-made rugs. Learn more about the difference between machine and hand-made rugs and why it is important here.

Each rug we sell has been researched and is listed with details about its quality (KPSI, warp, weft, age, pile), origin (where it was made) and condition. We have done our best to provide you with the most accurate information, but keep in mind that sometimes even the experts disagree. Please inspect photos closely before ordering to see the condition of each piece. Some of the rugs listed are up to 160 years old, and have considerable wear.

Please note, rugs made in Iran will not be sold on our Etsy site because of Etsy's policies about made in Iran products, but can be found on our website Decorumrugsandantiques.com. Please follow us on our Instagram page as well for rugs featured or not yet posted.

We hope to offer antique and vintage furniture and other collectibles (jewelry, coins) in the future.

As always, we are happy to answer any questions you have about individual pieces.

With Warmest Regards,

Sandra and Ken and Chris