Left to right: AmericasMart exec Kevim Malkiewicz, presented two America's Magnificent Carpet Awards to Kaleen Rugs, the first for the Hand-Hooked/ Hand-Tufted $0-$16 sq. ft. category and the second for Outdoor Rugs. From Kaleen are: Monty Rathi, coo,  Ty Strader, vp of eCommerce & marketing, Prachi Gupta, designer, and Blake Dennard, senior vp.

Ali Chaudhry, sales manager for Michaelian & Kohlberg accepts two awards with sales reps Jennifer Hillyer and Sherrie Lego Round.  M&K won in the Hand-Knotted /Flat Weave category for the $0 to$30 sq. ft. and$50.01 to $100 sq. ft. price points.  

Kashee & Sons accepted the Magnificent Carpet Award for Hand-Knotted /Flat Weave $30.01 to $50 sq. ft. category.  From Kevin Malkiewicz, left are Kashee & Sons execs, Zaheer "Haji" Mughal, general manager, Kashif Aslam, owner of Kashee & Sons and Bob Kriby, executive vp.

Celebrating their award for machine made rugs in the $0 to $100 category are Momeni Rugs execs, Hadi Sattari, national sales manager, Tarah Horne, sales rep, Reza Momeni, president and Ralph Long, sales rep.

Fereydoun Nahi, principal of Marcella Fine Rugs and team accept the award for machine made rugs, $100.01 to $200.

Accepting for Oriental Weavers are Ahmed Salama, ceo, Pat Muschamp, vp, sales and Mandi Williams, director of design.   Oriental Weavers won its Magnificent carpet award for the machine made $200.01 to $400 category.

The team from Smyrna Trading proudly accepts its award for machine made rugs, $400.01 and up.

Sam Azhadi, director of international and promotional sales at Nourison accepted the Magnificent Carpet  Award in the Licensee category for Nourison.

Macy's visits Oriental Weavers. From left, Patty Huang, Macy's Home; Brett Finkelstein and Sam Belak, Oriental Weavers; Dutch Mink, Dave Mink, Richard Kennedy, all of Macy's; and Pat Muschamp of Oriental Weavers.

Brian Gilbert and Philip Liss of Peerless Imported Rugs of Chicago congratulate Aria Momeni and Joseph Matthies of Momeni Rugs on the company's 40^th anniversary.

Harounian executives: From left, Deo Jugmohan, Greg Jordt, Lee Harounian, Bob Ball, Bobby Shamsian.

Juan Blumkin and David Snedeker of Nebraska Furniture Mart with Cyrus Yaraghi of Safavieh.

Carol Chitwood (left) and Rebecca McCartha of Dabney's in Brentwood, TN, flank Satya Tiwari of Surya Rugs.

From left: Amir Loloi, Cyrus Loloi, Erin Munoz and Phil Koufidakis of Baker Bros. in Phoenix, and Tim Ward of Loloi, pose in front of the new Cyrus rug collection.

From left: Cameron Capel of Capel Rugs with Daniel Buerkle and Gail Tucker of The Rug Market in Rochester, NY and Jake Sweeters of Capel.

Chris Wozniak of Nourison with Kelsey Haas and Mike Haas of Strawflower Shop in Geneva, IL.

Randy Kramer, Rugs Direct, Santhi Yarlagadda of Kas Rugs, Adrienne Wooddell and Bill Martin of Rugs Direct.

Matthew Rouhanian and Timothy Olson of Dynamic Rugs with Andrew Colacchio of Wayfair.com.

Amer Rugs execs Joe Barkley, Raj Choudhary, Mahesh Choudhary and Tanuj Gupta in front of the Silk Shine collection hand knotted of repurposed sari silk yarn.

Father and son Randall (left) and Randy Masters of Loloi with Michelle Ross, Gigi Horsley and Jane Marquard of Paysage.

Santhi Yarlagadda and Hari Tummala of Kas Rugs with Dolly and Rakesh Agarwal of Rugs & Home of North Carolina

Mark Ferullo and Rizwan Ansari of Rizzy in front of the Tumbleweed Loft rug.

Michael Wolf and Yervant Varjabedian of Safavieh flank Thomas Dwyer of Thomas Dwyer Antique and Fine Rugs of Hickory, NC.

Karen Plaehn and Kami Navid of Jaunty Co., Inc. with interior designer Nan Drais of Heartwarmers in Seneca SC.