How rugs fail
Why does a small fringe problem become a big rug problem?
A hand-knotted rug is exactly that — thousands of individual knots tied to a foundation. The fringe and the edges are what hold the whole structure closed.
When fringe wears down or an edge starts to curl, knots begin walking out of the rug row by row. Each month of foot traffic pulls the unraveling a little further, and the repair grows with it.
The earlier we catch it, the smaller and cheaper the fix.
Repair work here follows the way the rug was made: reknotted at the same tension as the original weave, rewoven with wool yarn matched to your rug’s colors, finished by hand. This craft passes from generation to generation, and your rug doesn’t need to be a collector’s piece to deserve it.
