Hi,

My name is Luis Michel, a native of Bolivia.

They did not teach me to braid rugs; I learned this in Hard Knox University after getting involved in 1986 in a textile recycling company, Proseinpe SRL.

So we had this large amount of textiles in Bolivia without any application until a cousin of mine said that when he was a student in Chicago area he lived with a lady that used to braid rugs.

On a later trip to central Wisconsin it occurred to me to ask my sister's mother in law if she knew how to braid to which her reply was that while young without TV that's all what the girls used to do.

We promptly tore a t-shirt of my nephew and had my first braiding lesson.

The rest was easy, trained Bolivian personnel and now have the best hand braided and hand laced rug in the market; just like grandma used to make it .

The only technological improvement over the Pilgrim days is that we use a perlon string to intertwine the braids so your rug now will never fall apart.

One of my first clients back in 1991 was a very classy rug store in Los Angeles "Les Rugs" with a very classy French manager. He liked the product but did not like the brand I choose for the rugs "Traditions" and while holding my business card he said: why don't you brand them "Luis Michel" so there is the name of our rugs. 

They are carefully made at a rate of production of 10 square feet per week per person. So a 5.5x8.5 rug will take about 5 weeks to produce.

We have two distributors in the US but so far we basically cater a custom high-end market.

We have the know how and personnel to mass-produce our rugs at a price in  the reach of every pocket; unfortunately we do not have the financial means required for this market reach conversion.   If you are an investor with volume market connections, we would like to hear from you, as we believe we have a truthful good business potential.

Please write us to luismichel@braidedrug.com

Regards

Exporting rugs to the US since 1991