If you have a beautiful Persian or Oriental rug in your home or office in need of a thoroughly exhaustive cleaning, Oriental Rug Salon has the expertise and certification to make your area rug look it's very best. Unlike wall-to-wall nylon carpeting, the wool or silk fibers used to create your beautiful area rug are delicate and require specialized cleaning solutions, expertise, dusting and wash services.  While nylon carpeting can be forgiving if the wrong detergents are used, wool and silk fibers can be ruined at the hands of “kids on commission” or inexperienced technicians. Deep Cleaning of all Oriental and Persian Rugs Oriental and Persian rug cleaning isn't just about getting rid of the dirt, soil and debris on the surface of the rug pile, it’s about deep cleaning [...]

Beautiful hand-knotted area rugs are woven with love, and in many instances, take months or years to create.  They are designed to last many generations with proper cleaning and should NEVER be “cleaned” in the home. Why not? There are two main reasons. The first is that you cannot thoroughly clean a woven textile in the home. Second, in most cases, you are causing long-term damage to the area rug. In-plant rug cleaning is recommended for Oriental, Persian, wool and silk area rugs. They should never be cleaned in your home like wall-to-wall carpet.  Hand-knotted area rugs require dusting, a specialized cool bath, and wool or silk specific cleaning solutions to ensure a thoroughly exhaustive cleaning. Tru-Clean Carpet & Tile Care’s sister company, Oriental Rug Salon, cares for the finest [...]

Before and After In-Plant Cleaning Results An Oriental or Persian area rug can make a room look spectacular. These rugs bring a home to life with color, history, and texture and can separate living spaces, add character and become the design element of any room. Every day, depending on where placed,  wool or silk textiles can endure much wear. They’re walked on, children or pets play on them, babies may throw up on them or worse. To extend your area rugs life, value, and looks, it’s imperative you know how to care for them. Steam Cleaning, Heat and Carpet Chemicals Carpet cleaning companies do a good job cleaning nylon carpeting.  They are not natural textile, such as wool or silk, cleaning specialists. Never allow a “carpet cleaning” company the opportunity [...]

Before you begin weaving your own Oriental rug, consider this. Rug weaving is an art.  A skilled weaver can tie about 6,000 knots per day. Thus, the time for one person to knot a 9′ x 12′ rug in several common qualities works out like this: Knots Per Square   Knots in a 9'X12'   Time Required To Weave                                  Inch                 Area Rug              9'X12' Aree Rug 60                          933,120                 151 Days  (5 Months) 91                          [...]

Approximately 33% of all Oriental, Persian, Turkish and other wool and silk area rugs Oriental Rug Salon is asked to clean contains pet urine. Pets can wreak havoc on nice rugs, especially when they have accidents. Pet urine, feces and “hairballs” can leave permanent stains and cause dye migration if not addressed quickly. Pet urine can also cause permanent damage to your wool and silk area rugs and create an unhealthy indoor environment. When urine is first deposited, it has a pH of about 5 or 6, which is on the acid side of the pH Scale. It is easier to remove right then when it is fresh. Once it dries, it turns “alkaline” or to a high pH between 10 to12 on the scale and becomes more difficult to [...]

Rug Badger Removing Dirt From Rug That Was Previously Vacummed Hand-knotted area rugs hide substantially more dry soil, sand, allergens, dust mites and other contaminants than wall-to-wall carpeting due to the construction of its foundation (woven versus glued). Because hand-knotted area rugs hide abrasive contaminates so well, if not professionally cleaned and “dusted” on a regular basis, they will develop “traffic lanes,” suffer color loss and host a variety of allergens out of reach of even the most powerful vacuum cleaners. Studies performed by the Eureka Company found that a 9 x 12 rug can hold as much as 87 pounds of particulate soil. The foundation of a hand-knotted area rug is created by a series of warps and wefts.  Basically, in most cases, a woven area rug has a [...]

Wool Recently Dyed In The Curing Stages The following article was written by Lisa Wagner, a second-generation rug care expert, NIRC Certified Rug Specialist and an owner of K. Blatchford”s San Diego Rug Cleaning Company. She was recognized as the 2006 Cleanfax magazine Person of the Year for her industry contributions. Rugs should be regularly cleaned. But not cleaned in the home. “Why not? There are two main reasons. The first is that you are not getting the rug thoroughly cleaned, and the second is that — in most cases — you are causing long-term damage to those woven textiles. I receive, on a weekly basis, technical help requests from cleaners or insurance case help requests from adjusters regarding damaged rugs. The rugs involved range in value from $100 to [...]

Oriental Rug Salon Is Certified By The Carpet & Rug Institute Different Persian, Turkish and Oriental carpets need many different approaches to cleaning and restoration and as such, can be tricky to the untrained professional. A misstep in the cleaning process could mean a valuable investment destroyed. We’ve seen all too often, an investment grade Oriental or Persian area rug devastated by a well-intentioned but uneducated rug or carpet cleaners. Recently a client presented us with an antique Persian Mashad area rug with an appraised value of $26,000.  The area rug was bled because she allowed someone else to clean it instead of the Eco Clean Solutions service, who we work with usually. The cleaning company was there initially to clean four rooms of wall-to-wall carpeting.  The technician asked the [...]

Hand Woven Silk Fringe Repair Fringes are almost always the first area on a Persian, Turkish or other wool or silk hand-knotted rug that will show signs of wear. The fringe is merely an extension of the foundation's area rug and runs through the entire carpet.  This extension is known as the “warp” and is used to weave each wool or silk knot around when creating the area rug. Upon completing of the weaving process, the rug is cut from the loom, and the excess warp strands are knotted and finished – creating the fringe or ‘tassel’ as it is commonly known. When fringes begin to fray, often they come loose from the stopping stitch used to hold the knots to the rug. Once the stopping stitch loosens, the knots [...]

When thinking of Persian or Turkish rugs, it’s not uncommon for people to think of the Islamic faith based on where these rugs are made and the dominant religion of the region. When thinking about beautiful hand-woven rugs, did you know that in addition to Muslim, other religions have also used rugs as part of their worship? Most rugs on today’s market are not used for religious purposes and are featured in homes throughout the world as a textile that brings a room together.  If you look closely at the motifs on many hand-woven rugs, you’ll see religious themes and secular subjects in their design and construction.  Persian, Turkish and other rugs that come from Muslim countries may feature stem Islamic motifs, rugs from Asia and European nations may highlight [...]