I was over a friend’s house recently and could not help but stop everything to admire several silk Persian rugs he had in a few different rooms through out the house. Hors d’œuvres were served while I crawled along the floor of his study searching the intricacies of his hand knotted area rugs, and I love crab cakes. Drinks were poured while I used my camera-phone to photograph the area rug in his sun porch. Champagne might have been nice but I was too drunk off the craftsmanship to bother with it.

This happens to me fairly often. My wife thinks it is crazy how over taken by well crafted area rugs I can be sometimes, though she loved these particularly gorgeous carpets too. I just love a good area rug. I do not have many habits or hobbies but high quality are rugs. I don’t know where this interest stems from or where it is going but I think it’s a great hobby.

My friend and I spent the duration of the evening discussing online rug sales, hand knotting techniques, area rug placement and other rug related topics. It was a thrill to realize that our host just happened to be as serious a rug enthusiast as I was.