...and it only took 30 years.
Those who were on this board B.C. (Before it Crashed), may recall that I am somewhat preoccupied, (ok, obssessed) with 61 black rugs. At first,I never gave them much thought because when I went to buy replacements, I didn't have any trouble getting an NOS rug set (from Mid America in 73, 4 or 5, I think).
They were the exact 'salt and pepper', black and aqua blue that my originals were (in the clean, unworn places). But, as my luck (mostly bad) would have it, they were in a friend's attic when (his luck is bad, too) wife burned his house to the ground (she still calls it a 'small house fire'). Anyway, I had to toss them and have never been able to find anything but the 'black and olive' salt and pepper, commonly available now.
I am currently in the process of having a custom area rug made so I can then have it cut into a carpet set. This 'rugquest' has led me to the fact that the flecking in the black rugs was originally from the Jewel Blue interior set. Think about it, the red interiors had red rugs with black flecks from the black rug set. The Jewel Blue rugs had the black flecks from the black rug set. So why would anyone decide to manufacture a whole different color (olive) just to mix it in with the black rugs? Does anyone think black and olive is such a good color combination that it's worth all that trouble?
So then, where did the olive repro rugs come from? It's dirty Jewel Blue. If you look at my original rug remnants, you will see that the top 1/16th-1/8th inch is olive but that the rest of the stalk is Jewel Blue. I now think that someone started reproducing rugs with 20 years worth of dirt ground into them and it caught on.
Am I missing some key point here? Can it be that simple?
BTW, if anyone has NOS black rugs or raw yardage, please e-mail me.
Regards,
JP
Those who were on this board B.C. (Before it Crashed), may recall that I am somewhat preoccupied, (ok, obssessed) with 61 black rugs. At first,I never gave them much thought because when I went to buy replacements, I didn't have any trouble getting an NOS rug set (from Mid America in 73, 4 or 5, I think).
They were the exact 'salt and pepper', black and aqua blue that my originals were (in the clean, unworn places). But, as my luck (mostly bad) would have it, they were in a friend's attic when (his luck is bad, too) wife burned his house to the ground (she still calls it a 'small house fire'). Anyway, I had to toss them and have never been able to find anything but the 'black and olive' salt and pepper, commonly available now.
I am currently in the process of having a custom area rug made so I can then have it cut into a carpet set. This 'rugquest' has led me to the fact that the flecking in the black rugs was originally from the Jewel Blue interior set. Think about it, the red interiors had red rugs with black flecks from the black rug set. The Jewel Blue rugs had the black flecks from the black rug set. So why would anyone decide to manufacture a whole different color (olive) just to mix it in with the black rugs? Does anyone think black and olive is such a good color combination that it's worth all that trouble?
So then, where did the olive repro rugs come from? It's dirty Jewel Blue. If you look at my original rug remnants, you will see that the top 1/16th-1/8th inch is olive but that the rest of the stalk is Jewel Blue. I now think that someone started reproducing rugs with 20 years worth of dirt ground into them and it caught on.
Am I missing some key point here? Can it be that simple?
BTW, if anyone has NOS black rugs or raw yardage, please e-mail me.
Regards,
JP
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