Custom made, made to order, bespoke Oriental Rugs and Carpets

Mannam Carpets - designers and master-weavers of fine custom made, made to order oriental rugs and carpets.

Bespoke or Custom-Made, inscribed oriental rugs and carpets are the ultimate in personalized furnishing. For these we have in Lahore, Pakistan, a well established tradition that goes back several centuries. The Girdler's Carpet, of which the Worshipful Company of Girdlers, London, is still the proud owner, was made in Lahore, especially for the company, way back around 1620.

TABLE and other carpets for the bedchamber of Mary de Guise, Queen of Scotland, in Stirling Castle Palace, Scotland

Stirling Castle

CUSTOM MADE MUGHAL RUGS

Flower and Niche Carpet

Lahori Pictorial Rug

BESPOKE SPANISH CARPET

Tower Rug

CUSTOM MADE LOTTO RUG

Lotto

More great Carpets from Lahore

The Frick Collection Lahore carpets from the reign of Shah Jahan

Carpet with Pictorial Design late 16th early 17th C

Mughal Millefleur Carpet Second half of 17th century

Carpet with Flower Pattern ca. 1650

Carpet with Niche-and-flower Design ca. 1630-40

Ames Mughal Hunting Carpet ca. 1590

Made-to-order Carpets & Rugs

For special interiors; to meet difficult, even non-traditional colour or design requirements.

Gifts for loved ones marking special events like weddings and anniversaries. We will be happy to integrate into the design and weave into the fabric, names, dates and other texts celebrating the occasion.

Emblems, Coats of Arms, Corporate Logos.

Your own art-work.

Our Custom-made Carpets are far more affordable than you might expect. Do check up our PRICES.

Museum Quality Replicas Of Classical Carpets

We do all authentic classical, period, exotic and standard Mughal, Persian, Spanish, Turkish, Tribal, Village and workshop weaves. Armed with generations of experience in this field we can ensure that the replica is true to the original not only visually but also technically and structurally. The Lotto Rug and especially the Spanish Rug made for the Conservator of Historic Royal Palaces illustrate our approach to reproduction antique carpet weaving.

Made strictly to order, our replicas are mint condition masterpieces crafted in the classic tradition with the weave and palette emulating the original as closely as possible. Both the virgin wool pile and the foundation retain all their strength, resilience and suppleness.

Should you desire an old look it will be achieved not through chemical or physical mistreatment, euphemistically known as "herbal" or "chemical" wash, but through masterly dyeing and weaving alone.

Dr. G. C. M. Birdwood on Bespoke Carpet Weaving

"No native, however, works so well from a pattern as spontaneously. His copy will be a facsimile of the pattern, but stiff, even if it be a copy of his own original work. His hand must be left free in working out the details of decoration, even from the restraint of the examples of his own masterpieces.

If he is told simply, "Now I want you to make something in this style, in your own way, but the best thing you ever did, and you may take your own time about it, and I will pay you whatever you ask, he is sure to succeed. It is haggling and hurry that have spoiled art in Europe, and are spoiling it in Asia."

The Arts of India 1880

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