We are going to have a once in a year rug tent sale 50% off on our entire inventory of rugs, kilims, and sheepskins. Our sales starts today, November 28th, so called the Black Friday from 10 am to 6…
Rug Ideas Employees’ Appreciation Night with those who could attend the event at Flame International Restaurant, on Santa Monica Blvd. in Los Angeles was a lot of fun last night. The only thing we did not talk about was rugs….
When the ends of a rug is damaged, we usually remove the damaged areas, unravel/open less than an inch and secure the ends to make sure knots do not come off and damage it stopped. Depending on the job, sometimes…
If we receive or pick up a rug which is old, antique, or damaged and cannot be washed with rotary machine, we hand wash it after it is gently dusted. Safety of the rug is more important than its appearance….
Summer is not always a slow season for us. We had a busy one this year. We were busy with a combination of rug sales, cleaning, repair, stain removal, appraisals, and more. Probably more than half of our clients are…
A client bought this 40-foot Persian Hamedan (Hosseinabad-Enjelas) runner on Saturday and wanted us to make a T-shape 2-piece of 22-foot and an 18-foot. We did this in a day. It was cut with hand binding and attaching/sewing the pieces…
It is a love/hate matter. Some of our clients love to see fringes/tassels on their rugs, and some hate fringes. The pros say fringes make their rugs look beautiful and more real. Cons say fringes look ugly as they get…
A client brought in a Balouch rug for repair a few days ago. It had a big hole in it and he wanted us to patch it for him. The good thing was that he had the patch. Its design…
In the old days when graph papers were not available and commonly used in remote areas, weavers had rug samplers which were used as guides and the rugs they would like to weave. A Bakhshayesh rug sampler from Heriz region,…
A carpet cleaner sent us a rug which was damaged on the ends in the process of cleaning. The foundation of this rug was silk. He wanted us to fix this for him. His client claimed she had bought this…