We want to remind our customers and new folks reading this blog that along with selling/cleaning/repairing Oriental and Persian rugs, we have technicians that do residential and commercial wall to wall carpet cleaning as well (upholstery too!). Specifically for wall…
This week a lot of TLC went into a Handknotted Bokhara Design Rug, which a customer brought in after having a great experience with us cleaning & repairing a Sarouk that had been in her family. The Afghan Bokhara design…
Stains, stains & stains… this is what a customer’s Indian rug has received over the past 2 years. From liquid spills to gerbil poop to foot traffic, the owner’s rug was a dirty sight. It also has a large tear…
Lately we have been receiving new types of shag rugs. These are beautiful and trendy but difficult to maintain and clean. They cannot be cleaned easily with vacuum cleaners and they may have issues when they are professionally cleaned. Here,…
Some customers ask their wall to wall carpet cleaners to do the cleaning of their valuable rugs at home. Carpet cleaners usually do not say “No” to these customers. Carpet cleaners do not know rugs. On the other hand they…
Before I close my rug store this afternoon, a lady walked in carrying an area rug for cleaning. I walked toward her and got the rug from her. It was an extremely dirty rug. It had a kind of Zebra…
When Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, insurance giant AIG and Lehman Brothers failed few months ago, everything looked bad and this situation was seized by the Senator Obama’s Campaign. Obama won the election with the promise of change. Can president-elect Obama…
On Friday September 24, 08, we were unexpectedly busy with selling different rugs to different customers. Few clients who had left their rugs for cleaning and repair showed up and picked up their Oriental carpets. Early in the morning, we…
A UCLA math teacher brought in an old American Sarouk carpet which was in a very bad condition. This type of Sarouk rugs were made in the early 1900 in Iran in the city of Arak, then called Sultanabad for…