At Broxburn, just to the west of Edinburgh and only 35 miles from Glasgow, you can find Caroline Allan and a magnificent collection of Persian rugs and carpets. The Persian carpet, the best of oriental rugs, is as much a product of the Iranian landscape as the clay walled villages and the wide e…

Leon Norell is an importer of handmade beautiful Oriental carpets. Of special interest, particularly to Interior Designers, are his hard-to-find colours, much in demand for today's interiors. A wheat farmer in Persia in his youth, his father late Henry Norell, came to England in 1925, swiftly to gai…