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Practical advice on choosing, placing and caring for a vintage rug, written by the people who source and restore them.

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Art Deco study paneled in walnut, a deep red rug with rows of guls on maple parquet beside a curved desk and leather club chair Buying Guide

Antique vs Vintage Rugs: What the Age Labels Mean

Antique usually means a hundred years or more, semi-antique fifty to a hundred, vintage is looser...

Buying Guide · 8 min read
A small cream and red Persian mat lying flat before a rust wingback chair and footstool by a brick hearth in an ochre Tudor cottage. Buying Guide

Is It a Real Persian Rug? How to Tell Hand-Knotted from a Copy

Most copies give themselves away on the back. The checks you can do at home to tell a hand-knotte...

Buying Guide · 10 min read
Small sage green Persian rug on a walnut work table in a stone-walled room, with skeins of wool, bobbins, scissors and a work lamp Care

Persian Rug Repair: What Can Be Fixed, and When It’s Worth It

Worn edges, loose ends, holes, moth damage, color run and brittle foundations: what a restorer ca...

Care · 9 min read
Low close view of the dense, short ivory fringe at the end of a deep red Baluch rug on pale gray painted floorboards, armchair behind Care

Rug Fringe: Why It’s There, How to Clean It, and Whether to Cut It

On a hand-knotted rug the fringe is the ends of the warp threads that hold the knots. Why Persian...

Care · 8 min read
Two rugs rolled and fully wrapped in white cotton on fir shelves in a shaded paneled storeroom, baskets and a chest below Care

How to Store a Rug Long-Term Without Damaging It

Clean and dry it, roll it instead of folding it, wrap it in breathable cloth, keep it on a shelf ...

Care · 8 min read
Bright bedroom with a brick wall, a double bed, a wooden chest at its foot and a dusty rose and purple rug on pale boards Care

Moths in Wool Rugs: How to Spot Them and Stop Them

Clothes moth larvae eat wool where a rug sits dark and undisturbed. The signs and the damage to l...

Care · 9 min read
Low view across the wool pile of a cream and taupe rug on terracotta tiles in a Mediterranean living room with a linen sofa Care

Do Wool Rugs Shed? Why, for How Long, and What Stops It

New wool rugs shed for a few months, tufted ones and tufted carpet for longer. Where the fluff co...

Care · 8 min read