Dirty Rug Cleaning in Los Angeles
I am a little different! I enter every room where ever I go, looking down. Not because I am sad or shy. Not because I lose something all the times. It’s because I feel the need to see what’s on…
Pets and Rugs
Our beloved pets, who most of the time fill our hearts with joy, sometimes make a mistake (or rather mistakes) on our rugs. Customers often ask how hard these stains are to remove; the answer is different based on a number…
Securing Your Rug
Securing your rug is an important part of keeping it in it’s best shape for years to come and is sometimes overlooked. Take a look at the pic above and notice how the fringes are slowly unraveling into the foundation…
Rugs, Carpets and Medallions
Medallions are decorative parts of many rugs and their designs. They come in all shapes and sizes and in some cases we may see a combination of several medallions and shapes in one rug. They may be square, octagon, pentagon,…
Rug and Kilim Repair Los Angeles
A customer brought in two pieces of 4′ x 6′ kilims, pile-less rugs and wanted us to sew them together and make them a one piece of 6′ x 8′. I said this would be ready in 3 days. He…
Rug Repair Carpet Restoration Los Angeles
Rug repair and tapestry/kilim restoration is part of the services we offer to our customers. To do the repair we have to have a wide range and variety of wool and yarn. We have a good stock of yarn in…
Persian Runners on Our Wall: A Little Re-decoration
For the past few weeks we had some tapestries on one of our walls in our rug gallery here in Los Angeles. Today, we decided to re-decorate that wall so we replaced the tapestries with 14 unique hand knotted Persian…
Who Is the Real Artist?
Who is the real artist. Pablo or Neda? Pablo painted and Neda weaves. Pablo used brushes and canvases. Neda uses yarn, knots and looms. This painting was sold in Christie’s of New York in May 2010 for $106 million. Would…
Finding Great Grand Father’s Rug After 100 Years
Few months ago, we picked up a big 12′ x 16′ 4″ hand knotted Persian Tabriz carpet from house of a client in Long Beach, 35 miles south of Los Angeles. Although this rug looked very old to me, it…
Ashkan Sobhe, IT Chair and Online Marketing
Ashkan Sobhe is my older son and his company IT Chair does online marketing and Search Engine Optimization. He has written a book on the Internet Marketing. I went to see him in his Wilshire office after the hours a…