Custom Area Rug Re-sizing Services in Jackson Wyoming...

This wool/cotton/silk blended area rug received a hand customization in our western Wyoming facility at the hands of our in house rug repair artisan!

Many of the area rugs that we receive into our care are not in need of a washing.  We offer rug customization services for all types of area rugs, textiles and carpets.  Basically if it can be thought of, we can probably make it happen.  This blog post is about a rug that was purchased for a room that logistically just did not fit the layout with the color scheme that was desired; while also allowing for the proper heating/ventilation ports in the room to function properly.  Since the most cost effective component of the room to modify was the area rug, enter Revive-A-Rug and our in-house rug repair artisan!

Area rugs that are hand knotted, rely on their surrounding construction components for their longevity and dimensional stability.  Say what?  basically in English, this means that you cannot just cut a hole in a rug and glue it together hoping that it will stay together.  While this is possible with carpeting and some tufted area rugs, hand-knotted area rugs are a different story.  There is a grid that is built as the foundation of a hand-knotted area rug.  The foundation threads that run the length of the rug are the 'warp' yarns.  The side-to-side yarns are the 'weft' yarns.  These yarns are intertwined and woven together along with what makes up the pile of the rug(the knotted yarns).  There are two sides to an area rug, the pile side and the node side.  Since we have already covered the pile side, the node side is the bottom(so called because the 'nodes' of the knots are rounded and visible/exposed).  Hand-knotted area rugs will unravel and fall apart if the warp, weft and/or the knots are removed or cut, etc.  Now that we are semi-oriented with the construction of the rug, we can go through some more pictures of the process that this rug experienced.

Each warp thread is re-knotted with the adjacent thread around the weft yarn in order to keep this rug from unraveling.

You can see the base of each knot in the picture above as it butts up against the weft yarn.  If this weft yarn were removed, the knots themselves would fall out and reveal the next weft yarn.  Once we reached the pre-measured size of the heat ports, these warps were tied off and ready for the next step.

All four sides of this hole we made in this rug require new knots to hold the rug together.

The newly exposed warp and weft yarns were left in tact in case this rug is to be made whole again. The new hand overcasting is starting to take shape around the interior of the removed pile area.

I showed these pictures to another colleague of mine in the rug industry.  The comment was made that we inadvertently left the yarns too long.  The reason we did so was just in case this rug goes out of style in its lifetime and there is a desire to re-weave the holes back in.  We feel that preserving the integrity of the value of the rug is important.  This rug can have the overcast edges removed and be re-woven.  If it is done properly by someone with enough skill and experience, this can be returned to near un-noticeably repaired if so desired.

The finished product before delivery. Two heater vent ports and a door stopper port.

In conclusion, this project was fairly elementary.  There are many different ways to perform these types of repairs.  We feel that the most important element of custom area rug services like this hand-knotted rug are to preserve the rug in all aspects:  value, construction and the ability to undo the customization and allow the textile to be returned to its original condition.  I know that there are cheaper, quicker ways to perform this task, but that is just not how we do business at Revive-A-Rug Cleansing & Repair.  We take pride in what we do, and so do our clients.  If you are interested in custom area rug services, give us a call.


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