by Rug Chick | Mar 6, 2011 | Rug Buying, Rug Care, Rug Selling
Oriental Rug Dyes. What you need to know. True or false – A colorfast wool rug can bleed? TRUE. The rug may be colorfast in CERTAIN situations. For example, with a regular cleaning or wash, with a neutral or acid side cleaning solution, the rug could be perfectly...
by Rug Chick | Feb 20, 2011 | Rug Care
Rugs and Floods. What to do 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 more likely it is to have dye migration that is not correctible. Rugs that are not washed...
by Rug Chick | Jan 20, 2011 | Rug Care
Why some rug dyes bleed. 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 have migrated into the neighboring off-white areas: What could create this type of dye migration?...
by Rug Chick | Jan 2, 2011 | Rug Care
Don’t water the rugs! 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 want to watch out for this particular problem that often is not discovered until it’s too late. Even...
by Rug Chick | Dec 27, 2010 | Rug Care
Hidden danger – bleeding rug wefts. 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 good percentage of new rugs today have dye colorfastness “issues.” I walk through...
by Rug Chick | Dec 14, 2010 | Rug Buying, Rug Care, Rug Selling
Afghan rugs, the trade-off for new tribal rugs. Rugs are loosely lumped into two general categories – “tribal” rugs or “city” rugs. City rugs come from “bigger” weaving operations that tend to produce rugs with more intricate designs, higher knot counts, and tighter...
