For any of you who will attend market in Atlanta July 17 - 19 (or is it thru the 20th....?) , I expect to be there for the first couple of days at least and would be honored to buy each of you a cup of coffee.
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Mighty nice offer! Although I don't know if I'll be making it this year, I certainly would take you up on that if I do. I've heard it's been very slow for the last several years...

Krow - The Atlanta market is basically an expo for wholesalers to display their new lines of rugs being imported. This goes for machine made, hand made, all types of rugs from many, many different sellers. You have to be part of ORRA to go.

Gotcha on the market. I know about such fairs. In my day job, I am in the book publishing world and our biggest yearly convention is BEA, Book expo America. Only open to the trade. It's huge and can be quite fun and glamorous. Not I am jealous. How up and running do you have to be to be a retailer? Zanuyay is a fully operative business entity, even if just at weekend markets and private sales.

That's good to know that you just have to be a retailer. I remember seeing people from the home expo being hosted on the floors above come down and browsing some rugs. I went the year before last. The basement was were most of the action was - A lot less formal. Other people have fixed booths on the other floors, which are pretty fancy. It's like they literally have their own showrooms. A tremendous amount of work goes into getting these rugs down there, displayed, then back to location.

Before the show starts, each importer can submit on rug of their newest collection of rugs to be voted on for best in show. At the end of the show, a panel of judges rates each carpet by price range. I believe they also had a couple of antique rugs there too? I think I saw maybe two or three, no more. We're usually not there for long, but it's always a good time going out to dinner after the day's done :)

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