Terms of use

These are the terms on which Azita Mehrabi publishes azitamehrabi.com. Using the site means you accept them; they are written to be read in one sitting. Governing law is that of Ontario, Canada.

What these pages are for

The site describes the rugs, runners, kilim cushion covers, pads and binding tape in the room, explains how each piece is measured and written up, and carries a form for asking about one. It is a description of what is in the room and a way to reach it. There is no basket here and no checkout; nothing on these pages is an offer a click could accept.

A question is not an order

Filling in the form, or writing to the mailbox, puts a question to the room. It does not reserve a piece, does not fix a price and does not bind either side. A piece is held only when the room writes to say it is held, and a sale is made only when an invoice has been sent and settled. Because every piece is one piece, a listing can disappear between your question and the reply, and the room cannot promise that a piece described on the site is still available at any given moment.

What the descriptions are

Every note on the site is written from what could be measured and seen in the room: size, knot count, pile height, fibre and wear. The room makes no statement about a piece's age, its place of making, or its value as an investment, and nothing on the site should be read as one. If a piece delivered to you is not the piece its note describes, it can be returned; that is the extent of the room's undertaking, and it is set out again on the front page.

Acceptable use

You may read the site, print pages for your own reference, and use the form to ask about a piece. You may not use the form or the mailbox to send anything other than a genuine question, may not scrape or copy the site's text or photographs for republication, may not try to interfere with how the site or its form relay works, and may not present any part of it as your own.

Intellectual property

The text on the site, the notes, the drawings of the borders and the marks belong to Azita Mehrabi. The photographs are used under the licences listed in the credits below, and a few are in the public domain; the licence terms of each are as stated there. Nothing here grants you a licence to any of it beyond ordinary reading.

Limitation of liability

The site is published as it stands. The room takes care that its notes are accurate, but the advice on the sizes and care page is general, and a decision about a floor, a pad or a vacuum cleaner is yours. To the extent Ontario law allows, Azita Mehrabi is not liable for any loss that comes from relying on the site, from a listing that has gone, or from the site being unavailable. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

Changes and law

The room can rewrite these terms at any time; the rewritten text appears here with its own date, and the wording on the site when you use it is the wording that applies. Ontario law, together with the federal law of Canada that applies in Ontario, governs these terms, and any dispute about them belongs to the courts of Ontario. This version was written on 28 September 2026.

Image credits

The photographs on the site come from open archives, each under the licence its archive states. Every one was cropped and resized for the page. Addresses are given in plain text.

pile-deer-blue.webp — a photograph by Carpetbeggers, used under the CC BY licence; the licence terms sit at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ and the photograph itself at https://flic.kr/p/fvoB81. Cropped and resized for the page.
pile-deer-close.webp — a photograph by Carpetbeggers, used under the CC BY licence; the licence terms sit at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ and the photograph itself at https://flic.kr/p/fvoB81. Cropped and resized for the page.
rug-on-the-floor.webp — a photograph by Carpetbeggers, used under the CC BY licence; the licence terms sit at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ and the photograph itself at https://flic.kr/p/fv9eX4. Cropped and resized for the page.
niche-kilim-whole.webp — an unnamed maker (the archive records no author); the archive lists it as Public domain, on its page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niche_Kilim.jpg. Cropped and resized for the page.
niche-kilim-pair.webp — an unnamed maker (the archive records no author); the archive lists it as Public domain, on its page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niche_Kilim.jpg. Cropped and resized for the page.
two-panel-kilim.webp — Pete Tillman; the archive lists it as Public domain, on its page https://flic.kr/p/2nwMoh5. Cropped and resized for the page.
hexagon-medallion.webp — Pete Tillman; the archive lists it as Public domain, on its page https://flic.kr/p/2nwMoh5. Cropped and resized for the page.
grey-kilim-fringe.webp — an unnamed maker (the archive records no author); the archive lists it as Public domain, on its page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilim_Gwiazdkowy_-_Tarkos_-_Wanda_Kossecka.jpg. Cropped and resized for the page.
grey-kilim-border.webp — an unnamed maker (the archive records no author); the archive lists it as Public domain, on its page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilim_Gwiazdkowy_-_Tarkos_-_Wanda_Kossecka.jpg. Cropped and resized for the page.
red-corner-fringe.webp — a photograph by Mr Thinktank, used under the CC BY licence; the licence terms sit at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ and the photograph itself at https://flic.kr/p/7aM4pj. Cropped and resized for the page.
red-rug-edge.webp — a photograph by Mr Thinktank, used under the CC BY licence; the licence terms sit at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ and the photograph itself at https://flic.kr/p/7aM4pj. Cropped and resized for the page.
red-cushion-face.webp — Wikimedia Commons contributor; the archive lists it as CC0, on its page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cushion_Cover_(Yastik)_MET_TP316.jpg. Cropped and resized for the page.