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Notes on Emmett Eiland

Emmett Eiland is one of the county's outstanding rug dealers. I have been to his store in Berkeley and it is a wonderful mix of new and old, decorative and collectable.

"Emmett Eiland (along with his brother Murray) founded the Oriental Rug Company in 1969 in Berkeley, California after graduating from the University of California. From the beginning, the Eilands made buying and research trips to Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey and the Caucasus. Through newsletters, books, exhibitions, seminars, films and public talks, the Eiland’s did much to create a fertile oriental rug scene in the San Francisco Bay Area.

By 1975, Emmett was operating the Oriental Rug Company by himself, and, by 1979, he was joined in the business by his wife Natasha. Today, Emmett and Natasha Eiland’s Oriental Rug Company is the oldest fully active rug store in Northern California. The business is centered in an 8000 sq. ft. showroom in Berkeley." Oriental Rugs

A 5 Star Book!

Emmett sent me a draft of Oriental Rugs Today before it went to press and I went over it line by line and I was very impressed. When I got back to Emmett with a few questions about certain points I was really impressed because Emmett was right on some of the points I thought I had him on. I ended UP learning some things I had thought I already knew.

I really got a kick out of it when the publisher quoted me on the back cover but frankly I mean it when I say:

"This is the single best book on the carpets most people will be buying."