Posts Tagged ‘fringe repair’

The fringe is the most delicate part of a rug. Fringe is the name for the threads that hang off each vertical end of the rug. Fringe can be damaged by foot traffic, pets, and vacuuming. Vacuuming is the biggest enemy of fine rugs. The beater brush tears and pulls on the fringe, causing breakage and tangling the fibers into knots that don’t disengage easily and eventually break. Robotic vacuum cleaners have a tendency to “eat” the fringe and edges of your rug- ripping and tearing indiscriminately.

What is rug restoration, you may be wondering? Restoration is a step above simpler repairs. Rug restoration restores a rug by weaving in the exact manner it was originally created. Restoration work should be very hard to detect. There are a variety of services encompassed by the term restoration, we will cover the most commonly performed.

Care for Your Rug at Home Caring for your rug at home is an important step in keeping your priceless handmade Persian rugs and handmade Oriental rugs healthy for many years. Consider Persian and Oriental rugs as your personal fine art gallery. To care for these rugs you need to know the following: Persian handmade […]

Do You Have a Persian Rug That Needs Reweaving? Rug weaving is a process of creating a textile by interlacing threads. The initial rug weaving is done on a loom, a frame-like piece of equipment that holds two types of threads. Warp threads run vertically, and are attached to the loom frame and held in […]

Organic Rug Cleaning Behnam Rugs specializes in organic rug cleaning and has taken great pride in the care of fine Oriental and Persian rugs since 1978. Our expertise and experience, combined with ORGANIC RUG CLEANING TECHNOLOGY, gives authenticity to the process and the preservation of the rug’s quality. We appreciate the art of handmade rugs, […]