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Today Show article on rug care tips. Honored to be interviewed by the Today Show for an online article on rug care tips. Share with your friends if...

Fire seasons in the southwest seem to be getting longer, especially in our area of the country in San Diego.We have had several major wildfires in...

Hello Rug Chick readers, My mom Kate, our team, and I are super excited that our company (K. Blatchford’s Rug Cleaning in San Diego) made today’s...

The biggest fear most rug cleaners have regarding rugs is that the rug might bleed while in their care.Bled Afghan rugThe fact is, with proper...

You’re in trouble indeed… I know he chewed the rug… but he’s so CUTE!It’s all fun and games until the valuable oriental rug in the den gets a pet...

Watering a potted plant near a rug can lead to a big ugly dry rot hole in a rug if it’s left undisturbed for too long. If you want to know why this...

The most common question I get from professional carpet cleaners (besides “oh God, can you help me save this rug!”) is this => “What rug cleaning...

The recommended cleaning method for wool oriental and specialty rugs, is washing them. For as long as rugs have been woven, they have also been...

With the number of home floods escalating due to severe weather, a number of rugs will be exposed to flood water. The longer a rug remains wet the...

There are a variety of reasons a rug might “bleed” on you. Let’s go through different scenarios for a wool rug like this one, where the red dyes...

If you have plants anywhere near your rugs in your home – or if you are a rug cleaner and see plants near rugs you are picking up to clean – you...

Every professional rug cleaner knows how to test a rug to see if the dyes are colorfast or not. At least they should know how to. Especially since a...

Here is an article on some of the characteristics of contemporary Chinese rugs that as a professional rug cleaner you need to be aware of: Chinese...

Here is an article on some of the characteristics of Afghan rugs that as a professional rug cleaner you need to be aware of: Afghan Rugs – What To...

Pet your rug. Go ahead – pet it! All pile rugs, just like your pet pooch or kitty or gorilla (hey – we have ALL kinds on this blog!) – the fur has a...

The most common repair needed by rugs in our town (and EVERY town with rug owners) is END repairs. With hand woven rugs, when the fringe is torn or...

Certain rugs are given a strong chemical washing by their weavers called a “luster wash.” This is a bleaching of the wool fibers using various...

What is it about fringe? Some rug owners LOVE it… most rug cleaners HATE it. Why all the drama? Well, it starts with the fact that when the rug is...

I just made a trip to Ontario Canada to teach a little rug cleaning clinic. It was just outside of Niagara Falls, which was BEAUTIFUL. Windy, cold,...

I often receive questions about vacuuming rugs from rug owners, asking if they should vacuum rugs, and if so how to do it. First of all, YES – rugs...

There’s a rug phenomenum out there called “tea-washed.” It’s not really TEA – but a brown over-dye that is applied to a rug after it’s woven in...

Most woven rugs have wool knots tied around COTTON fibers for its construction. Cotton allows for a more consistent shape and construction as...

Don’t know if you know this, but wool does not carry a flame. It is naturally fire resistant. This does not mean that a super hot fire cannot engulf...

I am not the biggest fan of TUFTED rugs. Simply because I appreciate the art of a woven rug crafted by hand,versus the mass-market production of...

A little sun never hurts, right? Well, with rugs, that depends. Some rugs , you could put them in the sun for ages with no affect. While others...

There is a horrible tendency by some contemporary American Hooked and Chinese Hooked rug manufacturers that is angering not only new rug owners, but...

Just like Tammy Faye used a lot of makeup to cover up her “real” look to try to appear younger … certain rug dealers can use some “tricky” cover-ups...

Rugs are meant to be on a HARD surface. But, for some reason, Americans love to put their rugs over SOFT surfaces. I’m not sure why. Probably the...

Rugs do shrink. Some slight – a fraction of an inch … some a lot – inches. Usually on their very first wash IF they have not been washed after being...

That’s a really good question. I mean, take a look at this rug right here:Filthy rug may be hiding SECRET DANGERS!What could be lurking here? Plenty...

Many woven rugs have a COTTON foundation (warps and wefts). I mentioned in the prior blog post that if you have old urine stains saturating a rug...

This will probably not get me a whole bunch of fans – but I’m going to say it anyway. My attitude toward pets is pretty much the same I have with...

Here’s a secret for you… ALL handmade rugs are crooked. Some may aim for perfection, but it’s very hard to achieve when hand crafting anything. Have...

Every rug on a hard surface can benefit from a rug pad.There are a wide variety of pads on the market. A good pad will provide several benefits. It...

Now more than ever, you are seeing MACHINE made rugs coming through your doors. It used to be that these were still WOOL rugs, but today a number of...