My love for Oriental carpets began when I was a teenager in high school. I used to help my father in his upholstery store by moving furniture for his clients. Many of these customers had beautiful oriental carpets in their homes, and I soon began to collect them myself. By the time I was 20, I opened my own carpet shop and since then I bought, sold, cleaned and evaluated carpets. My clients mean a lot to me, and I hate to see people get a bad deal when investing in an oriental carpet. This guide will help you on the way to find the perfect oriental carpet for your home without overpaying or falling loose.
Customer story
A few years ago, I sold one of my carpets to another carpet dealer in the area. A few months later, one of my clients came in with the same rug that needs to be cleaned. I told her that I recently sold this carpet to another dealer. Her home decorator took her to this carpet dealer to find a new carpet for her home. This carpet dealer sold her $ 3,000 carpet. I only asked 1500 dollars when he was in my store. Although this experience was inexhaustible for my client, who said that he would never return to this dealer, I use it as a lesson to tell people how important it is to conduct research before investing in an oriental carpet.
Do not be fooled "go out of business signs"
When I drive to and from work, I travel to another store on an oriental carpet. For the past three years, they have had the same “Going Out of Business,” “Liquidation,” and “Everyone MUST Go,” which are displayed in their shop windows. Obviously, they do not go out of business or these signs would have disappeared two years ago! When you see these signs for more than a few months, they should serve as red warnings. These sellers will try to seduce you with a “discount” and claim that you are getting the best deal because they need to get rid of their goods. This is not true. Oriental rugs are an investment, and if you¡¯re experienced and have done your research, you should be wary of buying from such stores.
So, how do you know if the oriental carpet is really “handmade”?
It can be difficult for beginners to know if they are looking at a handmade rug or machine rug. Here are some tips you can follow to help you make the difference.
Follow this step-by-step guide to determine if you have a handmade item or machine rug.
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1. Look at the back of the rug at the weave. Look at the white or red or blue horizontal (fringe) lines of the foundation threads. These streams are called ducks. You can see that partial ducks go only an inch or so, and then covered with wool knots, but it is important that these threads be horizontal to the edge. Sometimes horizontal threads run from one side (tied edge) of the carpet to the other side. The horizontal duck row may not be completely straight.
2. Look for irregularities in the color nodes on the back of the rug. You can see that some areas are slightly thicker than others.
3. Now look at the front of the rug. Look at the design carefully. Very rarely will the design be exactly the same size and shape from one end to the other end of the carpet. This is true mainly in old oriental carpets.
4. You may notice small color changes that make thick or thin stripes in the rug. This is due to the change in the color of the wool dye when weaving the rug and as the color of the wool increases with light and atmosphere. These color changes are usually found in the background color of the carpet. These color changes called "abrash" are common and do not detract from the value of the carpet.
5. Sometimes a rag is placed in one corner of the rug, which says: "Made in Iran" or "Made in India." You can be sure that this carpet is handmade.
6. Handmade carpets are almost always woven with a pile of wool. Carpets with a machine are often made using heaps of nylon or polyester.
7. Carpets with a machine are often made with a pile of nylon or polyester piles and, as a rule, are very uniform in their weaving. On the back of the rug, you can see white woven threads running from edge to end of the fringe, or you may not see white threads at all. In weaving or design there is usually no unevenness, and you will not find abrashirs in the color of the carpet.
What bucket area are you looking for?
Another idea to keep in mind is the size of the carpet you are looking for to complete the room. Follow these simple tips to choose the size of the area rug for what you are trying to achieve.
When choosing a living room rug, sometimes the client places the front legs of the sofa on the rug and places occasional chairs completely on the carpet.
The standard size of the rug in the room should be 1 foot (~ 0.3048 m) of floor covering showing everything around the carpet. Of course, if you have a larger open room, then the carpet should only ground the furniture in space.
The size of the carpet area is more critical when you buy a dining room. To protect the edges of the carpet, you must measure how far the chairs will be pulled out when the snack bar sits down. You do not want the legs of the chairs to be caught along the edges of the carpet. Permanently wiping the edges of your carpet with heavy chairs will soon cause damage.
If you buy a rug as a function in your room, perhaps under a coffee table, then you want at least 8 inches (20 cm) of carpet to be visible throughout the table.
What to do with your new oriental rug
Once you purchase your mat, you can use it as a wall tapestry, which is not unusual. To hang an oriental carpet on the wall, there are several different methods. My favorite method is to use one or more adhesive strips, which can be found in most large hardware stores for as little as a few dollars a few feet. Many other methods require semi-permanent changes to the rug, for example, sewing cloth loops on the back of the carpet and weaving poles through it that hangs on wall hooks or stitches the velcro on the back of the carpet that is stuck to the sticky tape glued to the wall. These methods work, but they require a little more work than necessary. Strip strips are more often used during carpet installation, but this is another very clever way to use them. Follow this step-by-step guide to hang a rug on the wall.
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1. Decide whether you want your mat to hang freely (it uses one adhesive tape over the top and creates a slight swelling effect) or fully attached to the wall on each side (it uses adhesive tape along each edge of the carpet and no billing effect ). If you want your rug to hang freely, measure how wide the top of the rug you want to hang. If you want to fasten it on all sides, measure the top, bottom and both sides. Get this measured length in velcro.
2. Apply adhesive tape (s) to a clean finish or paint and let it dry. This ensures that no acid from the wooden sticky strips can damage the back of the rug when it hangs.
3. Using a level to make sure the adhesive tape is straight, hold the strip where the top of the rug will hang and nail in along the adhesive strip (when hanging a heavy carpet, these nails must match the studs behind which can be found using a “stud”) . If you protect it on each side, repeat this process for the remaining sticky strips, making sure that they need to measure where to go.
4. Lift the mat onto the top adhesive tape and press it firmly against the strip (with the help of someone else if it is heavy). Use two or three nails to protect each corner of the pad (and, possibly, the middle, if necessary), nail them through the pad and into the mounted velcro. Upholstery nails are functional and decorative as they fasten the carpet to the adhesive tape and tend to look very fancy, hanging on the nails that you prefer to use. If securing each edge, repeat the other three edges, first making the sides, and making the last one last.
Notes on hanging the rug on the wall:
Be careful when handling sticky strips. Checks only stick out about half an inch or less, but they are very sharp!
