Hand-knotted rugs have characteristics that make them seem to be alive. All cause problems. All are easily fixed.
Popups
Also known as "sprouting" little strands of yarn pop up through the top of the pile and can look like your rug is sprouting bits of yarn.
It's a normal event in the young life of a hand-knotted rug. Here's why.
The Rug Is Like Your Lawn
When the grass grows for a week in the summer, it will look shaggy until you mow it. Then the tops of the blades of grass are even, like the pile of a rug.
Weavers tie literally millions of knots to a grid of strong material called the foundation. The two strands of yarn from the knots make up the pile of the rug.
When the weavers have tied all the knots, it's like grass that needs mowing.
Shearers come along and shear (mow) the strands of yarn to create the smooth pile you see on rugs in our showroom.
But sometimes they miss a strand. It hides from the shearer under the surface of the pile. The Shearer misses it. The rug washers miss it. The rug packers miss it. Everyone misses it.
Eventually, the rug is laid out for a new owner 7000 miles away in Florida. The new owner is thrilled until that strand pops up. Then another strand. Then another. The owner thinks the rug is flawed and calls her designer, who calls us.
But the rug isn't falling apart. The strand is firmly knotted to the foundation of the rug. It just needs to be clipped.
So we clip it. Or you can clip it.
It's no wonder that a few strands escape the shearer.
Let's say your rug is a 9x12 and has 80 knots per inch which is about average.
Your rug will contain 1,244,160 knots with two strands each: 2,488,320 strands! Yikes! No wonder that a few of these escape the shearer and pop up later.
Popups can appear for as long as a year as the rug gets walked on and vacuumed.
It's just part of the life cycle of many rugs.
The Solution to Popups
As the name implies, popups popup, or sprout. One might legitimately think that the rug is flawed and about to unravel. Not so!
This is a single strand of yarn knotted to the foundation of the rug. It just needs a trim.
Give it a snip with a pair of scissors at or below the surrounding pile and it's gone forever.
No popup!
Edge Curls
Depending on you your new rug has been folded or rolled on tube, it's edges can curl up in an annoying way.
The solution is to curl them the opposite way.
When rugs are rolled up for a long time, they are reluctant to become unrolled and the edge can stick up.
The solution is simple. Give it a good tight roll in the opposite direction.
The rug flattens.
Storage Wrinkles
Folding rugs can cause them to wrinkle. These are easily flattened in one of three ways.
We roll them tightly on a tube.
We steam out the wrinkle.
We place a weight on the wrinkle.
We take care of solutions one and two before delivering the rug to the buyer. If it's still bumpy, we apply the weight at the owner's home.
These wrinkles cause the most consternation in the showroom, where they may have just been unwrapped after spending weeks in the hold of a freighter. Don't let that alter your judgment about the rug. After flattening the rug in one of the above ways, it will be as flat as your floor for life.
Closeouts
Tampa
Wc double loop
wool and faux silk
size 8'9 X 11'6 OR 100.63 sq ft
DESIGNER NET $3018
CLOSE OUT $950.00
Wc double loop - closeup
Orlando
Cabbage Mist
10 x 14
60% wool 40% silk
LIST PRICE: $12,320
SALE PRICE: $5,080.00
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Rugs can be picked up at the showroom, or we can arrange for home delivery and set up for an extra charge.
These are individual pieces in one size in one color.
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Don't worry about storage wrinkles. We will steam them out.