Oriental & Persian Rug Cleaning — Hand-Washed by Experts

Oriental rug cleaning near me searches usually mean one thing: a hand-knotted rug that a chain carpet cleaner cannot safely touch. Persian rug cleaning is the core of what we do — Tabriz, Kashan, Heriz, Kerman, Isfahan, and every other weaving centre shares the same vulnerability to heat and high alkalinity. “Oriental” covers the broader hand-knotted world beyond Persia too: Turkish, Caucasian, Afghan, and Central Asian rugs all need the same cold-water, dye-tested approach.

Our oriental rug cleaning service starts with identification, because a flatweave kilim, a thick Moroccan Beni Ourain, and a fine silk-highlighted city Persian all fail differently under the wrong method. We read the rug first, then choose the wash — cold-water hand washing, dye testing, thorough dusting, and flat drying, performed in-house in Skokie and never outsourced.

Wool rug cleaning near me is the most common request we get, and for good reason — wool is the backbone of the hand-knotted world. Good wool resists soil and holds dye beautifully, but it has two enemies: heat and high alkalinity, both standard on the equipment most “rug cleaners” actually own. Heat felts the fibre permanently; high-alkaline detergent strips the lanolin that gives wool its resilience.

Professional wool rug cleaning at our Skokie workshop keeps the bath cool and the chemistry neutral, with a dry-extraction step first to pull the dry soil that a wool area rug holds deep in the pile. A wool rug cleaned this way comes back soft, bright, and structurally sound.

Antique rug cleaning is treated as conservation, not a household chore. A rug generally over eighty years old may have a weakened foundation, hidden earlier repairs, and almost always natural, fugitive dyes — the value at stake can run to five and six figures. Heirloom rug cleaning shifts the goal from “make it look new” to cleaning safely while preserving everything original.

Fine rug cleaning of an antique starts with a closer inspection than a modern rug receives — mapping weak areas, prior reweaves, and any dye that shows movement under test. This is the discipline Ghorban Ahmadi trained in under conservators whose work served the Louvre, British Museum, and State Hermitage collections.

Silk rug cleaning is the most demanding work in the workshop. A fine silk rug loses a large share of its strength while wet, and heat or alkalinity dulls the sheen permanently. Silk rug cleaning near me should always mean a specialist, not a generalist with a machine.

Professional silk rug cleaning at Ahmadi Rug drops water temperature further than wool, reduces immersion time, and uses the gentlest neutral chemistry we have. We also identify whether a rug is true silk, mercerised cotton, or viscose first — because a misidentified viscose rug cleaned as silk is one of the most common ways a “washable” rug is destroyed.