The rugs we collect from the Hamptons and Montauk
Hamptons houses are furnished by designers, and the rugs are what designers specify: oversize Oushaks in soft pastels, ivory Moroccan Beni Ourains and Azilals, Tibetan and Nepalese rugs with silk and hemp highlights, cotton dhurries and wool kilims, jute, sisal and seagrass in every beach room, and, in the older houses of Southampton village, Sag Harbor and East Hampton village, antique Persians, Caucasians and Aubussons that came with the house or the family. Sag Harbor's whaling‑era houses add hooked and braided rugs; Montauk and Amagansett add the hardest‑used beach rugs on the island.
Nearly every rug we collect here has two problems at once: sand, by the pound, from a summer of beach traffic, and the damp of a house closed from October to May. That is why the route is busiest in September, when the summer's rugs come out, and in May, when they go back down, and why we ask Hamptons customers to book those weeks early.
Rugs are rolled pile‑out on a tube and wrapped for the route to Farmingdale.
