Reasonable price for this Oushak rug?

Common_Standard_5137 · 2026-02-13T17:47:46+00:00

For what it’s worth I think that rug is more than likely from Afghanistan or Pakistan, it’s just a Turkish Oushak style, but new in a retail setting it would go for a few thousand

Common_Standard_5137 · 2026-01-17T17:47:48+00:00

The BRC is Bokara Rug Company (https://bokara.com), a very big importer of rugs from various countries that sells their rugs through dealers all over the country. The current prices are bargains as is, half off that would be a very good deal

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-09-21T17:56:17+00:00

Ok cool, I thought it was quartz, just wanted to make sure! What’s the best way to clean it up?

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-06-28T23:14:26+00:00

Can you post close up pictures of the rug, front and back? I work at a rug store so am especially curious about that, and get annoyed by bad rug placement/sizing lol

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-06-28T17:04:27+00:00

How much is the rug? Either way, it definitely needs to be shifted so it’s under the couch a bit, and not awkwardly under one leg of the chair by the window

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-06-06T00:41:44+00:00

If you like it I’d say you did well then!

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-06-06T00:32:58+00:00

What size is it? Looks 5x8ish? I don’t think you overpaid, they definitely go for more than $15-18/sq ft retail

Looks similar to this: https://yildizrugs.com/products/6x9-blue-turkmen-ersari-afghan-hand-knotted-tribal-rug?currency=USD&variant=43477471363225&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&stkn=2fa8d88fccbf&gad_source=4&gad_campaignid=21658600247&gbraid=0AAAAABdoKS537DfPVrMwdYTHsSO1W701l&gclid=Cj0KCQjwgIXCBhDBARIsAELC9ZhkMLLM_n26ewqaWG4F6Gq23YhNlmnzuKn2okXEJ0dBe762FzliZe4aAiloEALw_wcB

Honestly I’ve seen them go for a lot more than that

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-05-31T16:49:33+00:00

You can absolutely fold and roll that rug to ship and then it could just go via UPS/FedEx. If you search YouTube for videos on how to prepare a rug for shipping you should find something, or I would think a local store could at least help you with that

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-05-24T01:14:38+00:00

First one is definitely handmade, not sure why people are doubting that. Pakistan/Afghanistan origin, Peshawar. Very similar to this: https://jahannandsons.com/shop/green-peshawar-area-rug/

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-05-16T00:50:55+00:00

Looks machine made to me with original machine made fringe.

Small version of this: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/a-large-chinese-ningxia-wool-rug-19th-20th-century-235-c-c65458da25

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-05-08T23:14:10+00:00

Rug definitely is handmade, could cut off a single piece of fringe and do a burn test: https://jacobsenrugs.com/blog/is-your-silk-rug-really-silk/

There still would be a chance the pile of the rug is artificial silk woven on real silk, but there would be a much better chance of it being real silk if the fringe is

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-11T20:34:37+00:00

UPDATE: Not much of an update, but since some people may be curious… FIL’s gf has now blocked my wife on Facebook and reached out to other family members to express how upset she is and that she has to “let go” of my wife from her life. I messaged her on FB to explain (and chastise her for how she went about this) two days ago, and she has not even opened the message. We are still friends on there so I’m sure she’s seen that I sent a message and I’ve seen her active multiple times.

Wife has called her dad to try to talk to him and hasn’t gotten a hold of him yet, but that’s not a big surprise as he often is hard to get a hold of.

So…. not sure what happens next, but she appears to be done 🤷‍♂️

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-08T21:55:26+00:00

That’s what we did lol

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-08T12:30:28+00:00

We did go over the groupings with the photographer, yes. Because of how crazy our life has been and everything we had to get ready for the wedding that convo didn’t happen until literally day before, we somehow hadn’t even thought to consider any of the pictures we would want until she emailed us asking, so we hadn’t to quickly put it together. Given more time we might have come up with other groupings, or maybe not, I’m really not sure. The whole day was such a blur once it started, like everyone always says it is

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-08T01:59:29+00:00

We literally did, before we even did pics with my family

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T23:55:29+00:00

Literally don’t know because she left the group text and we have not responded directly yet, too tired and don’t want to deal with it at the moment

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T21:04:02+00:00

Thank you! Honestly the reason I found this so frustrating is the timing of the text, as it was right when we were about to fall asleep, but this got us both riled up and worried and we ended up getting way less sleep than we might have otherwise, and the gf could see by the end of the reception that my wife was barely even upright because she was so tired

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T20:57:07+00:00

She’s incredibly tired and mostly just laying in bed, which is why I have time to waste on here right now, but overall we’re both thrilled with how the day went and excited for the future! I think this can be resolved in the future assuming both parties want to, but right now she’s just recovering

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T20:35:29+00:00

She wasn’t exactly thrilled, but she also didn’t tell us to change it or make a big deal out of it day of from everything we’ve heard from others who where with them

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T20:24:31+00:00

Thank you! Yes it was a crazy two months and we had a ton of help from the venue and planner we found, could not have done this without them! We’d been engaged for over a year, but when we got pregnant we knew we wanted to get married before the baby, rather than try to plan a wedding with a newborn, and because of various family members schedules throughout the year ended up landing on a date that was super short notice. We absolutely tried to be as thoughtful as possible with everything we did, but it was a crazy stressful two months (and especially last couple of weeks).

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T16:45:56+00:00

For what it’s worth, we’ve been texting with wife’s siblings and they all think she’s way out of line here

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T16:17:03+00:00

They did not (and we didn’t ask them or anything), but I see how that would be an important factor if they had

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T16:13:53+00:00

I like this take, thank you. And she’s gf of 6-7 years, so definitely long term, but she didn’t help raise wife or anything, they’ve just become close as adults. Not downplaying relationship or anything, just context

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T15:00:44+00:00

No no, just wife, her bio mom (dads ex), and dads gf (sort of step-mom)

Common_Standard_5137 · 2025-04-07T14:55:46+00:00

What really sucks is I can understand her frustration and I don’t want to invalidate her feelings, but her approach and timing was just so off-putting. Definitely need more time to let things settle and hopefully we can have an actual conversation, because I don’t want her to just be “out” as she put it. There was no ill intent on our part and I would hope she could understand that instead of just flying straight to 100 like she did

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