Cosmetically Repairing a Hand Knotted Persian Tabriz Rug

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Couple of weeks ago we received a beautiful Tabriz Rug which was unfortunately damaged. The Warp And Weft of the Tabriz Rug were torn apart. This could be caused by hard pulls on the rug, uneven and not fully drying the rug, steam cleaning, using harsh and strong chemicals by those who did the last cleaning on this beautiful huge hand knotter Persian Tabriz rug. Our customer took the rug to several places and he was told that The Oriental Rugs could not be repaired if they had damages like this. We loved the challenge. Fortunately we were capable of handling the job so we Professionally Repaired and Restored the Persian Tabriz Rug. With the mix of blocking and many repairs done by our master weavers, we managed to bring the rug back to life. The rug is in a much better condition than it was and is ready to be put back on the floor and used for many more years.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

Los Angeles Rug Cleaning and LosAngelesRugCleaning.com

Besides selling many types of rugs, we do professional rug cleaning and repair. The DBA under which we do these services is called Los Angeles Rug Cleaning and the website related to this DBA is called www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com

Now this DBA and website has become a brand and we receive many calls every day from clients who are looking for and asking for our services. This has tempted some rug or carpet cleaners to imitate us and use our name or our copy righted materials from our web site. I just noticed that a rug cleaner in the San Fernando Valley area specifically from a town called Reseda north of Los Angeles has copied the entire page from our website's homepage. I contacted them and asked them to remove that. They wrote to me:

"Dear Mr. Sobhe,

This is H. R., I didn't know that you did carpet cleaning at all and I thought that you only sold rugs. I never looked at your site or my employees. I don't know what word you are concerned about but please let me know what paragraph and which page is disturbing your business or bothering you.

My site has nothing that I know about copied from any site. Please let me know what is the wording and I will have the wording corrected."

It seems that they should know what I do in order not to copy our content or not to use our registered trade mark. I wrote to them that it is not a word, sentence, line, or a paragraph. It is the ENTIRE page and provided them with the link. This is what they wrote back to me:

"Dear Mr. Sobhe,

I will email this to our web site designer and see what is going on. I have never seen this particular page on our home page and will see when it was changed. I hope that we are not using the same people for our web site optimization. As you know they are constantly changing the sites. It will be removed as soon as possible."

What kind of a businessman are you that you do not have any idea of your website! After I told them that they should remove all of our contents from their website otherwise our lawyers will take appropriate legal actions, they fixed their content and removed our stuff from their website.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

Rug Repair Rug Restoration: A Testimonial Video

We recently did repair and restoration of three rugs for a rug dealer from Florida. He was referred to us by a mutual friend. Two of these rugs were antique 120-year old Isfahan carpets which were damaged on the ends, sides and in the middle. Their foundation was very fragile.

The other rug was a silk Chinese rug. It was damaged on three different areas by a dog. We dyed the silk yarn to match the color. We matched the construction and design and made the foundation based on which we rewove the damaged areas. The difficult part was redoing the one inch flat-weave on the fringes. The repair came out very good.

This rug dealer received the rugs yesterday. He was so happy and blown away with the quality of the repair jobs. He provided us with a testimonial video. We edited the video and added the before and after pictures and a short weaving video to this testimonial. You can watch it here. It feels so good to see happy customers.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

I Love My Job! Hand Cleaning and Restoring an Antique Tapestry

I love my job! Why?! Because it is full of art, culture, history, and of course, surprises. Sometimes we receive old and antique rugs, kilims or tapestries and the owners have no idea whatsoever if these items are worth anything. It is like the Antiques Road Show. When I tell them that their rug is for example made in Iran in the 4th quarter of the 19th century and it is worth thousands of dollars, they cannot believe that and this is what I love to see. I am blessed to have the opportunity to see these objects of art in my rug gallery here in Los Angeles.

Last week we received two antique tapestries for cleaning and repair. One is from the early 20th and the other from early 19th century. The younger one was used on the floor while the older piece was hanging on a wall. The older piece which is a beautiful silk tapestry was used in a warm and humid place therefore it is full of mildew. The construction is very fragile and rotten in so many areas that it cannot be vacuumed. We had to use small tiny brushes to remove the mildew before we can hand clean this beautiful big 10' x 14' antique tapestry. After that, we will take care of repair and restoration.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

Carpet Cleaning Tips For Dummies

We buy Carpet Cleaning Tips For Dummies booklets in bulk to give them to our customers as free of charge gifts. The title is very catchy and our customers like to get this little book as a gift. It has many good and simple instructions on rug cleaning, stain removal, and vacuuming.

It also talks about the type of vacuum cleaners which are good. A vacuum cleaning machine does not have to be very luxury and expensive. It asks why you want clean carpets and then gets down to the answers.

This book has many good tips on vacuuming Oriental, hand made and area rugs.Area rugs with fringe require a special technique. We should use gentle suction and start from the center of the rug vacuuming toward the fringes and being careful not to catch the fringes and tassels in the beater bar. We should lift the rug edges to vacuum beneath the fringes. We may notice that heirloom or antique rugs often have missing fringes, probably the result of over-vigorous vacuuming or playful pets. Missing and damaged fringes depreciate and decrease the value of a rug.

If you live in or visit Los Angeles, you can stop by our rug gallery to receive this book as well as other books, literature and gifts.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

Round Chinese Rug Cleaning and Pet Stain Removal

Today we received a round Chinese Rug which a customer brought for cleaning and stain removal. Her dog had urinated all over the round rug. We have to do professional deep cleaning for the round Chinese Rug. once the Oriental rug is dusted, cleaned, and sanitized we will do pet stain removal on this rug to remove the dog urine stains.

Fortunately her rug is not damaged so it does not need Oriental Rug Repair and Restoration. Her rug will be much cleaner, softer, and shinier after the service is done and she can enjoy it for many more years to come.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

Rug Repair and Restoration: A Silk Chinese Carpet

We received a silk Chinese carpet from a rug dealer for repair. It had a very high count knots and it was damaged on three areas. We spent 45 days on the restoration of this hand knotted Chinese silk carpet.

To do the job, first we had to make foundation by warping, and securing the vertical threads. We had to use the same quality of silk with the same thickness to reach the same knot density and construction. We could not find all the colors of silk yarns we needed, therefore we had to dye some. After we finished weaving the damaged areas of the end in two places, we had to reweave the flat weave part which was very delicate. Rug repair is an art by itself.

The repair came out pretty good as you can see from the high resolution pictures I am posting. We have wrapped and packed the rug and are waiting for UPS to pick it up for delivery to this rug dealer. I am sure he will be proud of our cosmetic rug repair.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085



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Rug Appraisal Rug Appraisers Los Angeles

It is Saturday 9:30 am and I am at work. We have a couple of rugs to care for cleaning and repair. That is why I am at work at this early Saturday morning. Our working hours on Saturdays is from 12:00 to 4:00 pm.

Some of our customers who live in the neighboring cities come to Los Angeles on Saturday and stop by to purchase a rug or bring in their rugs for repair/cleaning. That is why we open on Saturdays.

A couple of days ago, we received one beautiful Afshar rug for appraisal by a client who wanted to get an official appraisal certificate for insurance purposes. This unique and antique Afshar rug was at least 100 years old. Each of the two big borders on the sides had different asymmetrical designs with madder red and indigo dark blue colors. The foundation was wool. The knots were asymmetrical and the two wefts were madder red. It had a very nice "barber pole" overcasting selvages and a two-inch flat-weave (kilim) at each end.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

Shag Rugs Cleaning Shag Rugs Stain Removal

Yesterday, we received one of our biggest rugs, a 17' x 27' shag carpet for cleaning and stain removal. This shag rug is stained in many areas. Our customer who has this rug has several cute little noisy puppies who love this shag rug. Pets are very smart and love to lay on something soft and cushioning. That is why they sit, and sleep on high pile rugs and carpets and make accidents on them in some occasions.

Some pets have health issues and pee on carpets and rugs. These pets should be seen by veterinarians. Other pets, may have training and or territorial issues. They pee on rugs/carpets and go back to the same old spot and make accidents over and over again. They tel their owners, hey, this is my spot. These pets need to see their trainers!

While many of our customers bring us their Oriental/Persian/Area Rugs for cleaning and repair, there are an increasing number of clients who buy and care for shag rugs and carpets. This type of rug although difficult to keep clean, are soft and decorative.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

Sheepskin Lambskin Cleaning and Repair

Sheepskin and Lambskin cleaning is one of our niche markets. We receive a lot of them for cleaning and sometimes for repair and cleaning. In some cases pet make accidents on the sheepskins/Lambskins and if this is repeated and not taken care of, the skin would have a dry rot and it will cracks and breaks.

Here, I am posting few pictures of a Lambskin/sheepskin rug we picked up from a customer few days ago. Before cleaning, we had to do some repair, patching and sewing. It was damaged by dog urine in several places and for a long time.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085

A Good Day For Our Rug Business in Los Angeles

Today was a good day. We delivered 8 Rugs to a customer. We went to their house and laid all the rugs out, including one rug which went under a heavy table and required a professional company to come and lift. The customer was very happy on all of the rugs, specially the Persian Rug that got Repaired and Rewoven.

We did Rug Delivery in Northridge and San Fernando Valley for two different clients. They were both very satisfied. One of the rugs was a Stained Indian Rug which we professionally cleaned. Another was a Sheep Skin Rug which was also stained and dirty.

We did another Rug Delivery in West Hollywood. The customer's rug was stained in several spots by her dog. All of the stains came out by professional deep rug cleaning. She told us that her rug was cleaner and software than when she bought it.

In these tough times, it's hard to satisfy everyone and have a smooth day. But, today we had a very smooth day and were able to satisfy everyone. It gives encouragement for me to continue what I'm doing with more passion and look forward to more satisfied customers.

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
310-770-9085