Cliff Richards Visits Lotto Carpets!
Home Décor (Carpets)
Not Just A Rug, Carpets are also art pieces that have to be loved and handled with care. Lotto Carpets Gallery helps you cherish this luxury item. By Our Staff Reporter
Lotto Carpets Gallery is a family business that has been under the care of the Mir family for more than 150 years now. Their mission has been to reintroduce the carpet as a work of art rather than just a static floor covering.
As an art, carpets have many aspects that can lead to a greater understanding, appreciation and ultimately love for the piece. The history of carpets is thousands of years old with the oldest carpet in the world, “The Pazryk” has been dated back to 500BC. Being one of the oldest art forms to exist, the carpet represents many different cultures, religions, traditions and people in every major part of the world.
Carpets have been made as far away as China, Russia, Turkey, India and Persia not to mention numerous tribes and villages that are no longer in existence today. The love for these wonderful creations comes from a greater appreciation of the carpets texture, knot density, colours as well as their patterns. Lotto Carpets Gallery provides in-depth and detailed information about all its carpets, thus helping clients understand and appreciate their purchases. As a result, they keep coming back for more!
The fine oriental handmade carpets and antique carpets available at the store have gone out to six generations of customers from all over the world. Formerly known as Lotto Carpets and Antique Carpet Corner, today it is proud to be one of Dempsey’s original tenants.
Its revolutionary office design pro-offers a unique concept of viewing and appreciating carpets. Lotto Carpets Gallery is positioned as the premier carpet purveyors, focusing on antique Kashmiri, Persian and Oriental Masterpieces.
Here at Lotto Carpets Gallery, one of the widest ranges of handmade carpets seen in the whole of South-east Asia and an antique selection that rivals, any of the world’s best is available. Besides it stocks contemporary rugs and carpets in various coulours, patterns and quailities made in India, Kashmir, Nepal or Iran. A huge range of oriental and tribal rugs sourced from dozens of locations all over the world. The carpet shop also provides all kinds of services to its customers unlike anyone else in the industry, to ensure our customers get the right information and are properly taken care of.
An in-house master repairmen and washing experts from factories provide all kinds of repair and mending services to its clients for carpets of any age, quality and damage. Washing, cleaning and restoration services are also provided - from simple cleaning or shampoo wash, to the powerful, close clean of the herb washes, Lotto Carpets are fully equipped to deal with any kind of stain, repair or other maintenance requirements of our customers.
Evaluations of old carpets are often misinterpreted and as a result, great works of art have been lost to misleading information by dealers of a lesser expertise. At Lotto Carpets Gallery, customers are offered unbiased, clear cut evaluations that prove the actual worth of their carpets and how by maintaining them well, they can actually love them more.
To help in understanding a carpet better, the shop owners have specially imported an original carpet loom from one of the master weaver’s home in Kashmir to further demonstrate the importance of knowledge sharing with clients to help understand better this time honored art.
Lotto Carpets Gallery takes pride in sharing knowledge about this age old art form. It has held informative sessions that help both adults and children better understand the art of weaving along with appreciating carpets. Also, during these sessions demonstartions on how to wash and maintain carpets is also provided. Recently, a coffee morning for the ladies of the American Club and field trips for the children of The Little Mandrins kindergarten was held.
Abid Mir’s passion for the arts is accompanied by a strong will to give back to the society. He has taken bold steps since January to help those he need. He says, “I take great pleasure in sharing my success with those who are less fortunate than I am.” Hailing from humble beginnings, Mir believes that giving is a deeply rewarding action which he would like to comtinue. A firm beliver of humanity above all else, Mir, along with his family and staff has organised two charity auctions since the beginning of the year to help the Down Syndrome Association of Singapore(DSA) and UNIFEM, respectively. Both auctions were a great success and each association has much to say in thanks to the donations. Said Dr Saba Iqbal of the DSA, “Our heartfelt thanks to you for your generosity which is an exemplary act of philanthropy to be emulated by others.” Said Pia Bruce of UNIFEM, “We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for your support and contribution of $50,000 to the National Committee”
