There are several reasons someone may want to display their rugs on the wall. It may be a fine silk rug, or an older collectible piece in some disrepair, that they don’t want foot traffic on. It may be that they have some dogs prone to accidents, or cats marking their territory, so they want to [...]
How A Hooked Rug Can Hang You.
There is a horrible tendency by some contemporary American Hooked and Chinese Hooked rug manufacturers that is angering not only new rug owners, but also rug cleaners who try to serve these owners. The rug looks innocent enough. Attractive, nice colors and floral design. Here is a hooked rug from China, typical looped construction on [...]
Stop Making Waves…
Rugs are meant to be on a HARD surface. But, for some reason, Americans love to put their rugs over SOFT surfaces. I’m not sure why. Probably the same reason they jump on their beds – because it’s BOUNCY! There are ramifications to the rugs though, when weight is placed on a pliable rug. A [...]
Tough To Dry Tuft!
Basically you have two major groups of rugs – woven and tufted. The easiest way to identify one from the other is that on woven (whether by hand or by machine) you can see the design on the back side. Tufted you don’t. Okay – that’s not an absolute truth, but pretty close. When I [...]