Slow, wool-safe washing for the Persian, Caucasian and tribal rugs that sit on Fort Greene parlor floors, collected from your stoop and brought back free.
Walk past a Fort Greene brownstone at dusk and you can often see it through the tall parlor windows: a hand-knotted rug in deep reds and blues, laid over original floorboards under a plaster ceiling. Collectors, longtime owners and people who inherited a piece from family all live on these blocks, and many of those rugs have been underfoot for decades.
Rugs like that should never go through a quick commercial wash. Ours is a slower routine. We collect the rug, look at its weave and condition, check every main shade for dye movement, shake out the trapped grit and then wash it with a mild, wool-safe solution, working with the direction of the pile. Afterward it rests on a drying rack until it is fully dry, and we carry it back up your stoop.
Dye checks come before anything wet. Some antique rugs used natural colors that hold well; others, including many mid-century pieces, carry reds that run at the first splash. A dab test tells us which kind you own.
Brownstone stoops and sidewalks shed a fine, sandy dust that walks straight indoors. Inside a wool rug it acts like sandpaper on the knots, so we spend real time pulling it out before the wash even starts.
Tall parlor windows are lovely, but years of afternoon sun fade whichever end of the rug faces them. Turning the rug end to end a couple of times a year evens that out, and we will mention it when we bring it home.
Heavy bookcases and sofas leave dark, still corners where moths like to settle. When we inspect your rug we look closely at those areas and show you any bare patches or grazed pile we find.
Fringe is the most fragile part of most rugs. We clean it gently and let you know if it is thinning, so you can decide whether a repair specialist should look at it later.
Flatweaves such as kilims are welcome too. They are thinner and can shrink, so they get a cooler, lighter wash.
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Most Fort Greene addresses can be scheduled same day.
Machine-made rugs from the same house go through our Fort Greene area rug cleaning. The Fort Greene overview lists every service here, and we also collect hand-knotted rugs from DUMBO lofts. Book online or call 1-800-589-4364, and we will send a free quote for oriental rug cleaning in Fort Greene, 11205.
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