Varanasi, India
J.R. Exports Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 1985 and traces its house back to 1901, working from a head office at Girinagar in Birdopur, Varanasi. It is a government recognised star export house making floor coverings and furnishings, with works at Jagatpur on the G.T. Road in Varanasi and at Barsat and Kohand in Haryana, a branch office at Yamuna Enclave in Panipat and a showroom at the India Expo Mart in Greater Noida. The range covers hand tufted, handloom, hand hooked and hand knotted carpets, woollen and cotton dhurries, polyester and wool shaggy rugs and bath mats. Its US trade record runs past a thousand shipments of hand woven cotton dhurries, woollen carpets, jute rugs and hand woven wool and viscose rugs, sold to buyers including Rugs USA, Loloi and the Annie Selke company.
Carpets tufted by hand through a stretched backing cloth, then latexed and sheared to level the pile. It is one of the four carpet constructions the company lists.
Carpets woven on handlooms at the company works in Varanasi and Haryana. They sit at the centre of the handloom range the house has built since 1985.
Carpets worked with a hand hook through a stretched backing to give a loop pile surface. It is carried beside the tufted, handloom and hand knotted lines.
Carpets tied knot by knot on the loom, the slowest of the four constructions the company carries. Its US shipments include hand woven wool rugs at fifty eight percent wool and forty two percent viscose over a cotton back.
Flat woven dhurries in wool, made without pile and reversible. They are listed as a line of their own beside the cotton dhurries.
Flat woven dhurries in one hundred percent cotton, hand woven at the company works. They ship in volume to American buyers including Rugs USA and Loloi.
Shaggy rugs made by hand in polyester and in wool, with a long loose pile. They are carried as a separate line from the carpets and dhurries.
Bath mats, listed on the catalogue under the company own spelling as bathmates. They round out the floor covering range beside the carpets, dhurries and shaggy rugs.
1131 recorded shipments · latest shipment Aug 2026 · buyers include Rugs USA, Loloi, Inc, FAL dba Annie Selke Company