About Morry

“I enjoy my work. I love being surrounded by these beautiful things.”

Morry Baghestanian first started working at his father’s rug bazaar before he was a teenager. Over sixty years later, he continues buying and selling high quality rugs for the Sacramento area. Why does Morry continue to work long after many people retire?

“I enjoy my work. I love being surrounded by these beautiful things.” His son Kamran, the fourth generation in a family of rug dealers, explains: “My father has had the opportunity to retire many times. We have talked about it as a family. But every year he sees a design or pattern he has never seen before, and that makes this work intriguing. Just recently, he purchased a rug from India because it was unlike any he had every seen before from that country.”

Indeed, if you bring your rug to Morry for appraisal or trade, he can tell you — based on the pattern, the weave, the knots. colors and material — not just the country of its origin, but perhaps the region and even the village where the rug was made. That is the kind of experience you expect from a man with Morry Baghestanian’s credentials: a certified Master Dealer in Persia, and the director of licensing and operations for all master rug merchants in the Persian capital.

Throughout all the upheavals in the parts of the world where Oriental rugs are made, Morry has quietly, patiently, skillfully continued to bring beautiful, handcrafted carpets and tapestries from traditional villages of the East to Northern California and the Sacramento Valley. He knows why every handmade rug is in his store. Each one is a beautiful thing, waiting to serve your family for a lifetime.