Moth Damaged Hand Knotted Oriental Carpets and Rugs in Los Angeles

More than any other types of damages, we receive rugs which are damaged by moths. Many people store the rugs in dark and humid places without vacuuming or cleaning them for a long time. There are so much protein and food stuff in rugs and this provides the condition for the eggs and larvae of the moth to grow. Moth damages and bytes the knots and the rug starts loosing the knots and pile. We send these rugs to rug facility to be washed with ample water and soap and dry under sun. After that, we have to make the foundation by providing the warps (vertical threads) and wefts (horizontal threads).

In this post, you may find several pictures of 77 moth damaged rugs a customer gave us for cleaning and repair last week. Some of these hand knotted rugs were totally destroyed so we consulted the customer and threw them in the trash can. They were not worth repairing!!

Khosrow Sobhe
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085

Rug Master, Rug Blog, A Busy Sunday in Los Angeles

Today was Sunday. I went to work at 11:00 am. Couple of customers brought Indian and Persian Tabriz hand made rugs for cleaning. One of our repairmen repaired four rugs brought by a rug importer. They needed some minor repairs for the damages done in transportation. Few customers also walked in and bought few pieces of rugs. We also picked up two rugs for cleaning from a customer's home. We delivered a big 12 x 16 Nepal rug to a customer's home in Encino, north of Los Angeles after we closed our store at 5:00 pm. Like every other week, we worked 7 days this week as well.

Tomorrow is Monday and the first day of a new week. Will something extraordinary happen? Will several customers walk in and buy many rugs? Who knows? We keep working hard with lots of hopes.

Khosrow Sobhe
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085

Turkmen Rug Lecture Los Angeles Textile Museum Associates of Southern California TMASC

Yesterday, we had a Turkmen Rug Lecture sponsored by the Textile Museum Associates of Southern California TMASC and the Textile Group of Los Angeles TGLA in our Oriental rug gallery on 1655 South La Cienega Blvd. We had 60 chairs which were all full and taken by the guests. The attendance was very good. The speaker was Jurg Rageth from Switzerland who presented a very well done presentation with interesting slides on Turkmen carpets and their designs. Several people had brought fine and antique Turkmen rugs for the "Show & Tell" section. Our program started at 10:00 am and finished by 1:00 pm.

Khosrow Sobhe
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085