Having spent a lot of time and money on finding the perfect Persian pieces, it is important that you take good care of it, because if you do, it will last you a lifetime, and maybe even outlive you! The best thing to do if your rug needs taking care of, maintaining and even repairing is to find a specialist who has expertise in Oriental rug repairs. Oriental rug repair specialists are trained experts who will have come across many different issues with oriental rugs.

An Oriental rug repair specialist will be trained in cleaning and repairing oriental rugs, so they will know the best techniques to do their work on each individual rug. It is important to contact a specialist, because they will know much more about the techniques which are suitable for authentic oriental rugs than other cleaning experts. If you take your rug to a cleaning specialist who does not have any expertise in caring for oriental rugs, then they risk using a technique which is unsuitable, and this could result in the rug being returned to you in worse condition than when you handed the rug in to be cleaned.

As the old idiom says, “a stitch in time, saves nine”, and if you have noticed an area of your rug which is starting to show disrepair, it is important that you take your rug to an expert as soon as possible, or you risk having to deal with a much bigger problem than you thought. If an area of the rug is damaged, all the fibres around that area will also be weakened, so it is therefore much easier for these fibres to be damaged as well. If you do not take your rug to be fixed as soon as you notice a hole or an area of weakness, the damaged patch can easily become larger and the hole will spread. It is harder to flawlessly fix a large hole than it is to fix a smaller one, and it will ultimately cost a lot more.

It is also important that you get in touch with a specialist as soon as possible if you get dirt or stains on the rug. The longer a stain is on a rug for, the harder it will be to get out, as the stain becomes locked into the fibres. The stain will be especially difficult to get out if you have continued to use the rug after the stain has become embedded into it. Walking on a stained area of an Oriental rug repair will only serve to tread the dirt into the affected fibres more and more and it will be increasingly difficult to successfully remove the stain. It is also very important to remove any bigger bits of dirt which are only lying on the surface of the rug, because the friction produced from this dirt being constantly ground against the fibres of the rug will gradually wear the fibres away, and it is likely that the rug will develop a hole.

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