Displaying and Using Carpets and Rugs Be expansive about the way in which you use rugs and carpets; they don’t have to be confined to the floor. Any insight into traditional uses may inspire creative placing in your own home….
A Sarab wide runner was brought in by a customer recently for our deep cleaning process. While we were inspecting the rug, we noticed that both the sides(selvages) and the ends had started coming undone. This unraveling of all 4…
A customer from Orange County recently came in with some runners that needed some repair. They were beautiful hand knotted pieces with a few problems. First prefabricated fringes had been placed at the ends of the runners, taking away from…
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…
A customer brought in a tufted rug for cleaning. It was a 3′ by 8′ runner full of moths, and stains. You could see the larvae and the eggs all over the rug. Having and using this type of rug…
It was a very slow day today. We sold a 3′ x 5′ Persian prayer rug to a customer in the morning. late in the afternoon, a customer reluctantly bought a 2′ x 8′ runner for her hallway. Paying many…
In an earlier post, I mentioned that a customer had a big hand knotted Turkish rug. It was too big for her office, so she wanted us to make the rug smaller. She also wanted us to make a runner…
It was Saturday today and a repeat customer who was on her way from Simi Valley, a city roughly 45 miles north west of Los Angeles heading our store to pick up her cleaned rug called and said she had…
Yesterday, a lady came in and said she was looking for a green runner. We showed her many pieces of green runners, but she happily left with a pair of 8′ x 2′ 3″ Beige (Creme) runners. Some of rug…
Last Sunday, a couple brought an Indian 8 x 10 rug for cleaning. They had come from West lake, a city close to Los Angeles. There were some little stains on the borders and I did not promise those stains…