Rug Fringe. What You Need To Know.

Fringe.  People love it. Or they hate it. On some rugs, it’s short, so it’s not a bother. On others it’s L-O-N-G, and drives some rug owners nuts. (I’ve had more than one take scissors to them in frustration… and then discovered the costly error of their ways, which we will get to later in [...]

Rug White Knots. (What You Need To Know.)

“My rug has white dots in the field, is this damage?” Many rug cleaners, and rug owners for that matter, do not know that the “100% WOOL RUG” in front of them (that is what the label says) often has a very large amount of COTTON in it. In the loom photo to the right, [...]

Bugs, Rugs, and Storage. What You Need To Know.

We’ve recently had several orders with some serious bug problems. Some were rugs that were improperly stored by their owners for years and made a meal for bugs that, unbeknownst to the owners, had hitched a ride to the storage unit. Others were rugs that have been down on the floor for years without being [...]

Why some rugs buckle.

I receive a lot of “help me” calls from rug cleaners and rug owners on rugs that are buckling. They want to know what to do. And my answer is usually… it depends. That’s because there are a number of reasons why a rug is buckling on someone. Some of these reasons are correctable. Others [...]

House plant damage to rugs. Your options.

Watering a potted plant near a rug can lead to a big ugly dry rot hole in a rug if it’s left undisturbed for too long. If you want to know why this happens, please read this => Don’t Water The Rugs! That’s what happened to this runner. The moisture from a potted plant was [...]

Don’t water the rugs!

If you have plants anywhere near your rugs in your home – or if you are a rug cleaner and see plants near rugs you are picking up to clean – you want to watch out for this particular problem that often is not discovered until it’s too late. Even the most careful person spills [...]

Look…MAGIC from my mom! =)

Remember the rug that was torn apart by the Rug Badger? (By the way, that was NOT an equipment problem…it was a TECHNICIAN problem. He clearly had not been properly trained to be gentler with this woven Turkish rug.) Take a look at these BEFORE and AFTER photos of the repair work by my mother [...]

Weird rugs…revisited!

How many drinks do you need to decide to create this out of an old Tabriz rug? How many drinks do you need to pay $1,800 for it? Actually…if a rug is damaged, has little resale value, and cannot be safely used in its current condition, it is nice to be able to give it [...]

Good equipment + bad training = RUG DISASTER

A really BIG franchise carpet cleaning company brought us a rug to “fix” for them. They are “certified” – they hired the southern contingent rug training duo to teach them the IICRC course – so they were able to memorize the facts to pass the test… and they bought the products the instructors were selling… [...]

Rug Repair Training – You interested?

Hello Rug Chick readers! I’ve been getting a few questions about rug repair, and my mother Kate and I recently spoke at the San Diego Weavers Guild meeting speaking specifically to rug repairs and our philosophies on them. Here’s a simple little rug repair of field wear. Not reweaving, but selective embroidery stitching (to protect [...]

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