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Tips & Care for handmade Oriental rugs

 

Our articles section features various types of articles on handmade oriental rugs, ranging from selecting a rug to maintenance, evaluation to removing stains. We'll keep adding new articles to this section for you so make sure to check back often. To stay informed and receiving articles in your email, you can also subscribe to our newsletter here. Additionally, you can also download our articles in one PDF document ( 4MB ) for later reading from here. We hope you enjoy learning more about rugs!


Tekke Bokhara

A description of different Bokhara varieties....


How to Vacuum a Rug

What is the best way to vacuum a rug so you don't go over the same part twice? How do you vacuum so you don't walk over the already vacuumed part?..


Oriental Rug Care

Here are a few basic hints to increase the life of your oriental rug. With careful treatment, Oriental Rug can survive for centuries. Following these simple guidelines to preserve the quality of your Oriental Rug investment...


Rug Revelations

Confused as to how to go about buying an area rug? Helpful hints are plentiful...


Carpet Care and Removing Stains

This article will guide you through maintaining your rug, carpet cleansing and the techniques on cleaning stains. Covering both Wool and Silk rugs, the treatments are suggested for almost every kind stain experienced in daily life...


Care and use of Oriental Rugs and Carpets

Carpets in a house help to reduce noise levels and minimize heat loss through the floor. They are also more comfortable to lie on or to sit on than a hard wooden floor. Read here more tips on the care and use of handmade carpets...


Handmade Oriental Rugs - Shopping Tips III

Concluding remarks on an encrouching series of articles on evaluating handmade oriental rugs...


Handmade Oriental Rugs - Shopping Tips II

Second in the series of shopping tips for buying handmade oriental rugs. This article explodes some prevalent myths about deteming the price based on colour, age and condition value of a rug. And we move forward to more concluding remarks next...


Handmade Oriental Rugs - Shopping Tips I

Learning to analyze and evaluate a rug is an art in itself and a complex subject involving thousands of different kinds of rugs with virtually infinite variations. Moreover, prices keep changing because of political, economic and social forces throughout the world. By necessity, therefore, the explanation will be oversimplified. Nonetheless, it will be sufficient enough to analyze the quality of almost all the rugs you are likely to encounter and to estimate their retail value...


Selecting the best rug for your home!

Selecting a handmade oriental rug is not easy. There are many factors involved while choosing a rug for your home; size, shape, color, pattern, material. So on and so forth. And then making sure that you're not paying extra. Learning to analyze and evaluate a rug is an art in itself. While later is lengthy topic itself, this article will help you in selecting a rug for your home...


Buying Oriental Rugs - A Beginner's Guide

Many holidaymakers wish to return from Pakistan and elsewhere in Asia and the Middle East with a traditional rug - it is one of the great skills from this part of the world appreciated for many centuries. But what should the amateur rug collector be looking for? Here's some basic advice explaining how to become an instant carpet expert...


A Brief Introduction to Carpet Weaving History of Pakistan

Pakistan is among the world's largest producers and exporters of oriental hand-knotted carpets. In the last few decades, Pakistani carpets have reached the farthest corners of the world. The art of weaving developed in the region comprising Pakistan at a time when few civilizations knew about it. ..









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