Tag: Art on the floor

Don’t throw away that old Rug. Bring it in for Rug Restoration

Posted on by D F

Even though antique rugs stand out as pieces of art, rugs are basically made to walk on. If they were hanging on the walls, rug care and maintenance would be much easier, but rugs are “art on the floor” and we try to do our best to take care of them. Still you cannot really tell what the dog will drag in tomorrow.

In time, some delicate rugs wear out. Some rugs have missing fringes, others have holes where a table’s leg used to stand, and we have seen water damaged rugs and wrap damaged rugs and rugs with vacuum cleaner damage or even bacteria and mold.

But this does not always mean that you have to throw away your rug. That’s the reason rug restoration was invented. Rug repair takes great technical skills, gentle hands and refined eyes.

1800GetARug can help you with your restoration needs. We can repair small to large holes in your rugs, fringes, mending, whatever you need to have done.
And whatever your repair need is – we can handle it at a very fair price. Call us and get a quote. We are located in the New Jersey area, but can handle even a long distance customer. Give us a call at 201-933-4300 and we will work out all the details for you.

If you have any type of question please call and we will be happy to service you!

Not every Rug is an oriental Rug. How can you tell the difference?

Posted on by D F

The term Oriental Rug has been used, overused and misused throughout the last few decades. Notice that suddenly, any carpet with a certain design pattern, whether handmade or factory produced is termed “Oriental carpet” by some companies.

Carpet outlets, furniture stores and even some large home improvement stores have been known to put out a carpet that ‘looks’ like an Oriental rug and just claim it as so. But Oriental rugs are much more than patterns or designs.

In this blog post we’d like to take a minute and define what is a real hand-made Oriental Rug:

  • True Oriental rugs are made by hand and never produced in a factory. Mass factory produced carpets are not unique – the machines do a perfect job of duplicating a single pattern and we don’t like perfect, not in the rug business. Hand made carpets on the other hand, are imperfect and even if they seem to have the same design, each and every one of them is different. The beauty of the hand made carpet (or hand-knotted, or hand woven, however, you want to call it) is in its imperfection. Each carpet is a unique work of art or as we like to call it “Art on the floor”.
  • By definition, Oriental rugs should genuinely come from an Asian country (that’s why there’s Orient in Oriental Rugs). Oriental rugs could be sub-divided into Middle East or Far East and the most well-known countries in the list for hand woven carpets would include India, Afganistan, Iran, Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan, Turkey and some southern regions of what used to be the former Soviet like Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Just to be on the safe side: “Wilton”®, “Karistan”® and “Couristan”® are nice rugs that are made by machines and have Oriental carpet designs. Please don’t confuse them with authentic “Oriental carpets”. Also know that no genuine Oriental rugs are made of nylon or polypropylene.

If you’re looking for a true Oriental rug, visit us at www.1800getarug.com where you will find a unique collection of beautiful handknotted rugs which is always up to date with color and design.