Megerian Carpet is a place where you step inside and wonder: “Can we even walk around in here?” There is beauty all around you – even under your feet.
But the staff assure you: “Don’t worry, you can walk on the carpet, nothing will happen.”
Megerian Carpet was founded over 100 years ago in New York. It was involved in the purchase and sale of carpets, and also repairs.
In 1970, the company opened its first carpet weaving factory in Egypt, and later in other countries.
In 2002, Megerian Carpet bought the Aygorg factory in Armenia, where carpets used to be woven in Soviet times. Now it is a museum of antique and modern carpets that weaves carpets from yarn dyed only with natural colours.
For example, a shade of yellow is derived from the immortelle flower, while another from the chips of a white mulberry tree. Brown comes from the shells of walnuts, while light-chestnut comes from the skins of white pomegranates, which grow in the south of the country in Megri.
In olden times, Armenian carpet weavers derived red dye from an insect called the Armenian cochineal. However, on today’s market, a gram of this dye costs more than its weight in gold.
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