by Boga Rugs | Jun 13, 2026 | Buying Guides, Rug History & Craft
Tribal rugs are woven by nomadic and semi-nomadic people whose weaving traditions predate any city workshop by centuries. They look different because they are different — in every meaningful way. When someone walks into Boga and asks about tribal rugs, I know...
by Boga Rugs | Jun 11, 2026 | Buying Guides, Rug History & Craft
If Oushaks are the great harmonizers of the rug world — working quietly with everything — Kazaks are the opposite. Bold, geometric, unapologetically graphic. They make a statement. We have customers who come in and immediately gravitate toward the Oushaks: the soft...
by Boga Rugs | Jun 9, 2026 | Buying Guides, Rug History & Craft
The difference between a rug that gets more beautiful over time and one that fades to a muddy gray often comes down to one question: natural dyes or synthetic? I’ve been handling rugs long enough to see this play out in real time. A customer brings in a rug for...
by Boga Rugs | May 22, 2026 | Rug History & Craft
When you walk into our showroom and run your hand across a Turkish rug, you’re touching something connected to one of the oldest continuous craft traditions on earth. Rug weaving in Anatolia — modern-day Turkey — stretches back thousands of years, predating the...
by Boga Rugs | Apr 25, 2026 | Rug History & Craft
When you walk into our showroom on Sacramento Street and unroll a hand-knotted Turkish rug, you’re looking at months; sometimes years of human work. Not metaphorically. Literally. Every knot in that rug was tied by a person. Our owner Cengiz has been working...
