Everything you need to keep a handmade rug alive
Wool, silk, cotton, and natural-fiber care — cleaning methods, stain response, and storage, written from forty-plus years of hands-on conservation work.
- General Care
How to Dry a Wet Rug
The 24–48 hour mildew window, the immediate steps that save a rug, what never to do, and when flood water changes everything.
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How to Vacuum a Rug the Right Way
Technique over frequency — the right settings by rug type, the fringe rule, robot vacuum honesty, and what vacuuming can never reach.
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Rug Fringe Care
Fringe is foundation, not decoration — how to clean yellowed fringe safely, the daily habits that protect it, and the mistakes that kill rugs.
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How to Care for an Antique Rug
Brittle foundations, fugitive dyes, and wear that is part of the value — placement, handling, display, and the museum standard of minimal intervention.
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How to Flatten a Rug
Why rugs curl, buckle, or won’t lay flat, and how to fix it — reverse rolling, weighted flattening, heat methods, and when the damage is structural.
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How to Hang a Rug on the Wall: The Museum Method
The velcro-and-sleeve method museums use, step by step — which rugs belong on the wall, the methods that destroy them, and placement rules.
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