Info & Terms

Rugrabbit.com is a free post site and in no way guarantees any vendor or items posted on the site.

HOW DOES RUGRABBIT WORK?

POSTING

Anyone can start to post their collectible antique rugs, carpets and textiles or ethnographic art on rugrabbit.com. To start posting hit the tab “Post Item” and follow the prompts.

LOGIN

You will need to create an account to post your items. Once this has been done you will receive an email with your Rugrabbit login password. Use your unique email address and password to login to the site. You can manage and edit your items only when you log in. You can also Feature and un-Feature already posted items. If you like, you can add an image and text about yourself to create your Public Profile and edit this profile whenever you like by logging in.

SELLING & POSTING GUIDELINES

Please do not post more than 3 items per day. Subscribers may post up to 6 items per day.

All items posted on Rugrabbit should be antique (over 100 years old, preferably at least 19th century, or highly collectible). Unsuitable items will be removed.

Please remember that this is primarily a site for collectible and ethnographic material. As such, in most cases rugs and textiles with aniline and other synthetic dyes will NOT be considered appropriate and will more than likely be removed. Likewise, overly refurbished pieces will be removed.

Rugs and textiles from all regions of the world and weaving cultures are welcome.

For your own benefit as well as the site’s try to select the best images of your items as possible.

Similarly, please try to describe your object as accurately as possible.

Unreadable or side-ways pictures and overly controversial descriptions and dates will be removed or edited.

If a piece you have posted is removed and you do not know why, please feel free to write and inquire, however, DO NOT re-list the piece.

Sellers are encouraged to post frequently and often. This said, once you have listed a piece, for the respect of others posting, please DO NOT post it again without waiting an appropriate amount of time, generally at least two months, and using a new image.

Viewers respond negatively to seeing the same pieces posted over and over.

If you would like your pieces to have maximum exposure at the front of the page, we ask that you please consider Featuring them.

Only Subscribers may promote items available through another venue, such as an outside auction website, ebay, etc with a limit of two such posts at a time.

Likewise, if you are promoting an event or posting a general advertisement we ask that you either Feature your posting or post it as a subscriber.

Please do NOT post logos. If you are promoting an event please do so with either an image of pieces in situ at the venue or actual objects. If you would like to post a logo or a more general announcement please contact us for information on our banner ads and rates.

Please do NOT list your email address or phone number within your descriptions or on your Profile. This attracts unwanted spammers to our site.

Rugrabbit reserves the right to remove or edit any posting or profile for any reason.

SEARCHING AND BROWSING

Items are listed one after another chronologically as they are posted 48 to a page with Featured Items appearing before the general listings at the top of the first page.

Items are searchable by selecting either a Category [ such as 'Kilims & Flatweaves', 'Books', 'Textiles', etc.] or a Region of Origin from the drop menus located on the upper left hand side of the screen. For an even more specific search, try typing a KEYWORD such as 'Coptic' or 'minakhani' into the search engine located on the right hand side of your screen. Regions of origin are categorized in the following manner.

Anatolian / Turkish : Includes classical Ottoman carpets, Ottoman textiles, tribal and village Turkish rugs from Anatolia and the Balkans, Armenian and Kurdish rugs from East Anatolia as well as Anatolian kilims.

Caucasian : Includes all pile pieces and flatweaves from the Caucasus. Shirvan, Kuba and Kazak rugs. Avar to Zakatala including classical blossom and dragon carpets.

Shahsevan : A sub-category of Persian and Caucasian. Anything described as Shasevan including both sumak bags, jajims and pile rugs.

Persian : Includes pile weavings, kilims and textiles from Iran. Everything from classical Safavid carpets and textiles, urban Tabriz, Heriz and Kerman carpets to Vermin bags.

South Persian Tribal : A sub-category for weavings from Fars, such as Khamseh, Qashqai and Luri rugs and bags as well as Afshar rugs and bags.

Kurdish : Includes both Northwest Persian Kurdish rugs and Jaf bags as well as East Anatolian rugs.

Baluch : Includes all suspected Baluchi weaving groups from NE Persia, Afghanistan, and Sistan including Timuri rugs, Aimaq pieces and a host of others.

Turkmen : Includes carpets, bags & trappings of the Tekke, Yomut, Chodor, Ersari, Saryk, Salor, Arabatchi and other Turkmen groups from Turkmenistan and across Central Asia.

Central Asian Non-Turkmen : Includes Kyrgyz and Uzbek rugs, Central Asian ikats and suzanis, Lakai and Kungrat embroideries, East Turkestan rugs from Khotan, Kashgar and Yarkand, as well as some Amu Darya weavings often referred to as "Ersari" or "Bashir".

Tibetan : Tibetan rugs, textiles and costume.

Indian : Includes the entire Indian sub-continent. A variety of pieces from Banjara textiles to Mughal carpets.

Chinese : Includes both rugs and textiles such as Ningshia carpets, Ming brocades and ancient Chinese silk textiles from the Ming to the Han dynasty.

Japanese : Includes an assortment of Japanese textiles such as banners and kimonos as well as Japanese cotton pile rugs.

Indonesia / SE Asia : Includes batiks from Java and Sumatra as well as objects from the Indonesian archipelago and other textiles from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Americas : Includes pre-Columbian textiles, weavings from Native American groups such as Navajo rugs and blankets, and American and African American quilts and folk crafts.

Africa : Includes all African textiles and objects.

Moroccan / N. African : A subcategory for Moroccan rugs and North African rugs and textiles.

Europe : Includes the entire continent from Spanish rugs to French and Flemish tapestries to Greek embroideries.

Items from specific sellers are likewise searchable through the drop menu titled "Profiles" as well as“Contributer by Name”. Subscribers make up the first list on these pages. For additional seller profiles hit the tab, "More Profiles" located at the end of the drop menu. You can also access a specific dealer's Pages by clicking the link underneath each of his/her postings.

DONATIONS / SUBSCRIPTIONS

We are encouraging those who have the means to consider Subscribing to rugrabbit.

We would like to reaffirm that the site is free to use and in no way are you required to donate nor does rugrabbit take a percentage of any sale that may occur or charge a commission or finder's fee. If, however, you have been successful as a seller, you have purchased something that you like, or just like what you see we ask you to consider Subscribing or making a donation in any amount great or small that you feel comfortable with. Subscriptions go towards offsetting our costs of maintaining the site.

The suggested subscription rate for sellers is $27 a month ($320 per year). Sellers who subscribe in this amount or more will have their Subscription status noted with each of their posted items reflecting that they " Support rugrabbit." Additionally, these sellers will be placed on the Priority lists of sellers on the "Contributor by Name" drop menu and "Profiles" section.

We would like to encourage regular viewers and buyers to also consider subscribing to the site. Of course, donations in any amount are greatly appreciated and needed to maintain the site and we would like to thank everyone who donates.

Subscriptions and Donations may be paid by either following our link to Paypal sending a direct one time payment to mail@rugrabbit.com , or by check in US dollars, Euros, or Pound Sterling. Additionally, you can drop of payment with several of our friends in Istanbul, New York, San Francisco, London and several other European cities. For additional payment options please contact us at mail@rugrabbit.com

FEATURED ITEMS

Featuring Items is another way to help us to defer the costs of rugrabbit’s maintenance and up-keep. Featuring your item gives you maximum visibility and allows your item to be seen at the beginning of the listings on the first page. If you are not a subscriber we kindly ask you to Feature your announcements and all items listed offered in other venues.

To Featured an items costs $35.

Featured Items appear for a week or until you remove them.

We are no longer giving out free featured item credits with new subscriptions *As of April 1, 2010 we will be ending our promotion of giving out free Featured Item credits to our old subscribers. Please contact us for details.

Thank you for your interest in Rugrabbit. We value your participation and suggestions. Please feel free to contact us at the following email address, mail@rugrabbit.com

Sam Coad & Ben Banayan

Mailing address:

Rugrabbit
5 Regent Square
Penzance Cornwall
TR18 4BG
ENGLAND

Tel: +44 1736 360 102