Tabriz Rug Restoration
Today’s blog focus’ mainly on pics to describe the before and after. As they say, “a picture says a thousand words”. Take a look at some before pics of this Tabriz rug: As you can see both the ends and…
No Rug Left Behind
No matter what your rug needs are we here at Rug Ideas want to help you find a solution to your problem, whether it be via cleaning, repair or restoration. While we are confident and comfortable dealing with 100 year…
Unearthed Rugs – Part 1
In our quest to clean, repair & restore Persian, Oriental & area rugs we have come across an interesting job. A customer called a couple weeks ago and mentioned that he had 2 rugs that had been in his ownership…
Gabbeh Rugs Green Carpets
We produce high end hand knotted Gabbeh rugs with fine quality hand spun wool and natural dye in the Province of Fars and around the famous city of Shiraz in south west Iran. All of our weavers are ladies from the Qashqai…
All About Afshar Rugs and Kilims
Afshar rugs are woven by nomads and villagers residing between the cities of Shiraz , Kerman , and Yazd in southeastern Iran . Afshar style, like most Persian styles, is copied by other areas of Iran as well as other…
Persian Mashad Carpets and Mashhad Rugs
The city of Mashad is the capital of the province of Khorassan in north east Iran. Mashad has a population of more than 3,000,000 and is located almost 900 kilometers, 560 miles to the north east of Tehran. The republic…
Sisal Rug Repair – Part 2
Today’s blog post is a continuation of last Friday’s; we showed you a repair we did on 1 of the 2 Sisal Rugs that our customer brought in which came out fantastic(see that blog post HERE). Take a look at…
Why Wool Rugs?
There are many reasons why I love wool rugs. Here I mention few of them: 1- Wool is natural grown up on sheep that graze in the nature in rug producing countries. 2- Wool is bio-degradable. This is a great…
Nain Rugs and History
Nain city (also spelled Naeen) with 35,000 sq. km. area, is located at 130 km. distance to the east of Isfahan city and 320 km. to the south east of Tehran. It is located in the central plateau of Iran, in Isfahan…
Back to Life – Custom Reweaving
Today’s blog post doesn’t need a lot of explaining as the pics pretty much say it all. We picked up this rug from a customer a few weeks ago and the problem was immediately apparent… a hug chunk of the…