Here’s a secret for you… ALL handmade rugs are crooked. Some may aim for perfection, but it’s very hard to achieve when hand crafting anything. Have you ever written in a journal, set it down then picked it up to write again? When you go back you can see slight variations in your handwriting. The [...]
Padding Every Job…
Here’s the deal … every rug on a hard surface can benefit from a rug pad. I mean EVERY rug, and I mean a GOOD rug pad, not some of those flimsy green mesh sorry-excuse-for-a-pad pads. (Horse hair pads are even WORSE.) No, I’m talking about a good pad – like this one. Pad under rug [...]
Attack of the MACHINES!
Now more than ever, you are seeing MACHINE made rugs coming through your doors. It used to be that these were still WOOL rugs, but today a number of olefin, polyester, and other synthetic fibers come your way. And they have “traditional” hand woven rug designs, so to an untrained eye and hand, you can [...]
Oriental Rug Freckles.
Okay, the technical term is not “rug freckles” but that’s what I call them. (My blog, my vocab!) They are white knots. Sometimes a handful, like this: Sometimes HUNDREDS like this one : These exist with ALL hand woven rugs. Here’s what happens. Remember that rug loom I showed you a few posts back? Notice [...]