Oriental Rug Salon - Handwashing Services For Persian and Oriental Rugs Who you trust for the cleaning and care of your cherished Oriental, Turkish, Persian, or other wool or silk area rug matters. Basically, there are two ways a rug cleaning plant can clean area rugs; through an automated batch washing process or by hand. Whatever you do, you should NEVER let a carpet cleaning company "clean" your rug. Here's why! An automated rug cleaning plant is designed for volume, similar to an automatic car wash, whereas handwashing is considered custom detailing, and rugs are washed one at a time. With batch mechanical washing, many rugs are piled in a tub simultaneously and mechanically washed with no way to intervene if something goes wrong (such as rug bleed). With this [...]