Johann and his older brother Johann Philipp came from a Nuremberg family of rugmakers.
In 2006, The Shack received an outreach grant from the Mollohan Foundation for the Appalachian Rags to Rugs Program.
Making the Video | Stop Making Sense | making-of | Making the Cut: Last Man Standing | Making the Band | Making-of | Rug making | Ratsey's sail making company on City Island | Oriental rug | Making the Most of the Micro | Making the Cut | ''Making the Cut'' | Making History II: The War of the World | Making God Smile: An Artists' Tribute to the Songs of Beach Boy Brian Wilson | Making false statements | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan | Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World | Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure | decision-making | Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team | Women of Truckee Making History | The One: Making a Music Star | The Making of Pump | Talbot Street bomb-making haul | Superior Rug Cleaning | Rug Rage | ''Red Guards - Going Forward! Making Money!'', a 2004 sculpture by Jiang Shuo, exhibited in the lobby of Langham Place Hotel | Programme making and special events | oriental rug | Making Trouble |
Stemming from the homonym to the today's Turkish settlement of Şarköy in Thracia, which had no established rug making tradition, Şarköys are often falsely ascribed to originate from Turkey.