At Rug Ideas we clean not only Persian and Oriental carpets but many other types as well, including sheepskin rugs(see a great previous post on sheepskin rugs HERE). Today’s post involves the cleaning of a black sheepskin rug that a…
A nice Bokhara rug was brought in by a customer for a deep cleaning; it definitely needed it as the rug had not been cleaned in about 3 years. While we were inspecting the rug a noticeable blemish jumped out…
Rug Ideas’ headquarters is in the heart of Los Angeles but our customers bring us their carpets from far and wide. A customer sent us his gorgeous Handknotted Persian Isfahan Rug from Pennsylvania, who heard of us first through a…
Today’s post follows up a previous post on the cleaning and reweaving of a large Indian Rug that we picked up from one of our customers. When we last left off the rug had been completely deep cleaned, sanitized and…
At Rug Ideas we help rug owners get their pieces cleaned, repaired, secured & rewoven every day. We also do custom jobs like the one in today’s post. A woman came in a few days ago with 3 area rugs…
Dogs seem to be having great taste in rugs this year. We received a Tabriz rug from a customer that needed a good cleaning since it had been about 3 years since its last one; this same rug also needed…
One of our repeat customers brought in a beautiful Tabriz Rug last week for cleaning as it had been about 2 1/2 years since its last cleaning. She loved our deep cleaning process, which involves complete wet washing, sanitizing and…
In 1949 Russian archaeologists Rudenko and Griaznov discovered the oldest known “knotted” carpet in the Pazyryk valley, on the Altai Mountains of Siberia. It is the only received carpet from Achaemenian. Although it was found in a Scythian burial-mound, nevertheless…
A rug is more than a rug! It is a weaver’s few months to few years of life. It is a family tradition. It is a culture and sub-culture. It is art on the loom and then art on the…
A good customer of ours recently brought in one of his Navajo Blankets, of which he has a great collection of. This one needed more than our deep cleaning, though. It had become torn and tattered from years of wear…